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Does early educational tracking increase migrant-native achievement gaps? : differences-in-differences evidence across countries

Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2015

We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...

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Cultural diversity : a matter of measurement

Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015

Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...

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Long-Run Development and the New Cultural Economics

Gershman, Boris - 2016

This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long …-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on … economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture, as well as cultural transmission, persistence, and change. Some of …

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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001

Bengtsson, Tommy; Scott, Kirk - 2008

This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...

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Chapter 21. Immigration : What About the Children and Grandchildren?

Sweetman, Arthur; van Ours, Jan C. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1141-1193). 2015

-national heterogeneity in outcomes is observed as various sources of immigration interact with distinct national labor markets and …

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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

that at least skilled immigration promotes economic equality in the host country under standard conditions. The context is … the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity for relative economic performance …

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Comparing Immigration Policies : An Overview from the IMPALA Database

Beine, Michel A. R.; Boucher, Anna Katherine; Burgoon, Brian - 2021

stringency of immigration policies. Based on the selection of that data for nine countries between 1999 and 2008, we challenge … data and methods but are also of intrinsic importance to understanding immigration regulation …

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature for receiving countries

Nathan, Max - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

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The value of language skills : a common language facilitates communication and economic efficiency, but linguistic diversity has economic and cultural value too

Grenier, Gilles - 2015

, maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of people's culture. …

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Identifying the Determinants of Attitudes Towards Immigrants - a Structural Cross-Country Analysis

Brenner, Jan - 2008

Utilizing subjective data to infer on fundamental issues of individual opinion is associated with severe conceptual and methodological problems. This paper addresses these problems and investigates the attitudes towards immigrants within a cross-country framework. To this end, we utilize data...

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