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Who matters most? : the effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling
Gang, Ira N. - 1996
This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - 2014
Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the … youth. Education at the intensive margin is measured by two widely used standardized math and reading test scores, national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457898
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On the road to integration? Immigrant’s demand for informal (& formal) education
Coniglio, Nicola D.; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - 2019
In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … immigrants the private investment in these activities is likely to have relevant external effects as informal learning and …
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The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany
Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2018 - This version, August 29, 2018
their countries of origin. This phenomenon is even more pronounced for parental education. It is demonstrated that the …
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Chapter 57 Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the … destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …
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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299919
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among … married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community Surveys. Among immigrants, better job opportunities, measured by … live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …
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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital
Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
returns to schooling and over-education rates by country-of-origin. The key finding is that accounting for schooling quality … virtually eliminates native-immigrant gaps in returns to schooling and the incidence of over-education. The quality of human … capital is important for understanding the economic integration of immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786216
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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes : evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696201