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Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, Francois; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...
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Fostering strong and relevant skills in Iceland
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Brogi, Laura - 2019
Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in the world economy and safeguard high prosperity and well-being. Many students, especially those with an immigration background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202874
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Hiring New Ideas: International Migration and Firm Innovation in New Zealand
McLeod, Keith; Fabling, Richard; Maré, David C. - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2014
Poor productivity performance has been identified as a significant issue for New Zealand, and innovation is seen as a … key mechanism for improving productivity growth. Understanding the drivers of firm innovation therefore represents an … important step towards improving New Zealand’s economic performance. In this paper, we combine firm-level innovation data with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084952
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Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students’ reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388259
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Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401695
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Let the Girls Learn! It is not Only about Math It's about Gender Social Norms
Nollenberger, Natalia; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2017
that social gender norms affect parent's expectations on girls' academic knowledge relative to that of boys, but not on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653353
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Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools
Alesina, Alberto; Carlana, Michela; La Ferrara, Eliana; … - 2018
If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant students compared to natives who have the same performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984541
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Motivated to Succeed? Attitudes to Education among Native and Immigrant Pupils in England
Burgess, Simon; Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel - 2018
We study attitudes to education among English adolescents. Using PISA data, we show there is considerable variation in these attitudes depending on background: immigrant students have substantially and significantly more positive attitudes to school than native children, a difference that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931643
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Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools
Alesina, Alberto; Carlana, Michela; Ferrara, Eliana La; … - 2018
If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant students compared to natives who have the same performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533066
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The Extent and Consequences of Teacher Biases against Immigrants
Sahlström, Ellen; Silliman, Mikko - 2024
We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from blind graders. This effect is almost entirely driven by...
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