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In this article, we document the evolution of the cognitive skills gap across Canada. We use PISA tests scores over 7 …
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cognitive skills. In this article, we document the evolution of the cognitive skills gap across Canada using PISA data. We use …
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, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
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In Germany, the poor performance in PISA 2000 stimulated a heated public debate and a strong policy response. The government reacted to the low average and remarkable disparities registered by the test, and spurred reforms led to a significant improvement in the country fs educational...
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In 2007 the share of urban population exceeded the share of rural and the trend for urbanization remains. The city is defined as the center of inequality and segregation, and population density is highest. In this article we give a brief overview of the main works on urbanization
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inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … one third of the variation in income inequality, and that skill inequality is itself explained by historical schooling …
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inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … one third of the variation in income inequality, and that skill inequality is itself explained by historical schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464228