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approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of the NIS interviews, U.S. born and foreign …-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …
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Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration patterns of different ethnic groups are hypothesized to...
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This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity spillovers from high-skilled workers. We use a smoothing splines estimator to model the spatial distribution of high-skilled workers as continuous curves. Our rich panel data allows us to address...
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. We find modest adverse education effects among both immigrants and natives. These effects do not carry over to the labor …We examine the effect of ethnic residential segregation on short- and long-term education and labor market outcomes of … immigrants and natives. Our identification strategy builds on the one-sided tipping point model, which predicts that neighborhood …
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widening ethnic gap in education. Equal opportunities for the next Roma generation are therefore jeopardized unless policy …
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This study estimates the expected long-term budgetary benefits to investing into Roma education in Hungary. By … money into Roma education would pay off even in fiscal terms. In order to be successful, investments should take place in … investing into somebody's education will lead to benefits not only to the person in question but also to the whole society. We …
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This study estimates the expected long-term budgetary benefits to investing into Roma education in Hungary. By … money into Roma education would pay off even in fiscal terms. In order to be successful, investments should take place in … investing into somebody's education will lead to benefits not only to the person in question but also to the whole society. We …
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We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long … secure better educational opportunities for their children. A larger fraction of immigrants speaking the same language in the …
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom …
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This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …
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