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Is poverty the mother of crime? Empirical evidence of the impact of socioeconomic factors on crime in India
Bharadwaj, Ashish - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 1 (2014)
convincing result comes from the figures of elasticity of education with crime where a 10% increase in per capita expenditure on … education in India leads to a decline between 9.2-11.2% of overall property crime rates. …
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Gender differences in competitiveness
Lackner, Mario - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
differences in competitiveness will not only influence outcomes during working age, but also during early childhood education. In …
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Age at school entry: How old is old enough?
Dhuey, Elizabeth - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Laws on age at school entry affect student achievement and often change for a number of reasons. Older students are more mature and ready to learn. This can have positive impacts on academic, employment, and earnings outcomes. The costs of holding children back include another year of childcare...
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Family structure and children’s educational attainment in transition economies
Mangiavacchi, Lucia - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …
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Human capital quality and the immigrant wage gap
Coulombe, Serge; Grenier, Gilles; Nadeau, Serge - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
We propose a new methodology for analyzing determinants of the wage gap between immigrants and natives. A Mincerian regression framework is extended to include GDP per capita in an immigrant's country of birth as a proxy for the quality of schooling and work experience acquired in that country....
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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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Remittances, school quality, and household education expenditures in Nepal
Bansak, Cynthia; Chezum, Brian; Giri, Animesh - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
household members migrating internally) have a greater impact on education than do external remittances. We posit that this may … be due to a higher value placed on Nepali education by internal migrants as compared to the education needed for foreign …
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Monitoring, endogenous comparative advantage, and immigration
Qirjo, Dhimitri - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-22
complex industry. We show that national institutional quality and the system of the early childhood care and education …
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Migranten in Berlin: schlechte Jobchancen, geringe Einkommen, hohe Transferabhängigkeit
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 35, pp. 496-507
Der Anteil der Personen mit Migrationshintergrund ist in Berlin nicht höher als in vergleichbaren deutschen Städten. Wegen der schlechten Wirtschaftsentwicklung und der allgemein hohen Unterbeschäftigung in Berlin treten die mit Migration verbundenen ökonomischen und sozialen Phänomene hier...
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Arbeitslose Hartz IV-Empfänger: oftmals gering qualifiziert, aber nicht weniger arbeitswillig
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 43, pp. 678-684
Trotz der günstigen Beschäftigungsentwicklung ist die Zahl der Hartz IV-Empfänger in den letzten zweieinhalb Jahren nur wenig gesunken. Die Zahl der erwerbsfähigen und nicht arbeitslosen Leistungsempfänger ist sogar gewachsen. Die Arbeitslosigkeit unter den Hilfeempfängern hat zwar...
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