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Linguistic diversity in the classroom, student achievement, and social integration
Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina - 2018
immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity by using a novel measure of the degree of linguistic diversity in the … detailed information on students' language and math scores, their social integration, as well as on sociodemographic and school … linguistic diversity has no adverse effect on students’ language and math skills, but worsens the social integration of immigrant …
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Best and brightest? : the impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171443
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A macro-level analysis of language learning and migration
Übelmesser, Silke; Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie; Weingarten, … - In: German economic review : GER 23 (2022) 2, pp. 181-232
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Age-specific education inequality, education mobility and income growth
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; KC, Samir; Sauer, Petra - 2013
We construct a new dataset of inequality in educational attainment by age and sex at the global level. The comparison of education inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education attainment trends on economic growth. Our results indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432435
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Long-term orientation and educational performance
Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Özek, Umut; … - 2016
secure better educational opportunities for their children. A larger fraction of immigrants speaking the same language in the …
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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Figlio, David N. - 2016
secure better educational opportunities for their children. A larger fraction of immigrants speaking the same language in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984842
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How Different are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021
status, language proficiency, immigrants' time spent in the host country and patterns of school segregation. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318896
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Job status, international migration and educational choice
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home … order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311042
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Teaching practices and cognitive skills
Bietenbeck, Jan - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 143-153
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For long-term economic development, only skills matter : Economic growth determines a nation’s long-term economic well-being and crucially depends on skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2017
Politicians typically focus on short-term economic issues; but, a nation’s long-term economic well-being is directly linked to its rate of economic growth. In turn, its growth rate is directly linked to the economically relevant skills of its population. Until recently, however, economists...
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