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Migration and educational aspirations: Another channel of brain gain?
Böhme, Marcus H. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments. The norms and values experienced in destination countries can change the behavior of migrants and also of family members left behind. This paper suggests that brain gain can take...
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Migration and educational aspirations : another channel of brain gain?
Böhme, Marcus - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments. The norms and values experienced in destination countries can change the behavior of migrants and also of family members left behind. This paper suggests that brain gain can take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334016
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Class size: Does it matter for student achievement?
Jepsen, Christopher - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
the costs and benefits of smaller classes concludes that other education policies, such as tutoring, early childhood …
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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students: A story of language or ethnicity?
Diette, Timothy M.; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - In: IZA Journal of Migration 6 (2017) 2, pp. 1-18
There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants, especially those with limited English language skills....
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Educational stock and economic growth : the case of Greece over the period 1981-2009
Pegkas, Panagiotis - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 62 (2012) 1/2, pp. 56-71
This paper examines the impact of education on economic growth in Greece over the period 1981 – 2009 by applying the …
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Female labor force participation and child education in India : evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-27
We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in mothers' labor force participation and its impact on their children's educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we find that a mother's participation in the labor force...
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Pandemic's impact on education
Dinculescu, Corina Georgeta - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 306-311). 2020
education would have recovered quickly, and especially for the scenario in which the crisis persisted for a longer period … (several months), and in this case the solutions should provide equal access to education for all children and young people. We … world, including Romania. On the long term, this action has had, and will continue to have negative effects on education …
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Education platform for more cooperation among schools
Weinhardt, Felix - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 158-159
The living situation of the elderly population in Europe is gaining importance due to demographic change. In many European countries, women receive substantially lower pensions than men; gender pension gaps among pensioners can be up to 69 percent. When taking elderly people without a pension...
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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of age and gender
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 1, pp. 1-37
We estimate the impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using Belgian …
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Estimating spillovers using panel data, with an application to the classroom
Arcidiacono, Peter; Foster, Gigi; Goodpaster, Natalie; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 3 (2012) 3, pp. 421-470
Obtaining consistent estimates of spillovers in an educational context is hampered by at least two issues: selection into peer groups and peer effects emanating from unobservable characteristics. We develop an algorithm for estimating spillovers using panel data that addresses both of these...
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