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Educational e-services in schools help to bridge the gap between parents and teachers by sharing information about the children's school activities in a collaborative way. However, there is a lack of research explaining how effectively this collaboration takes place and the challenges that...
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Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that … immigrants. Perceived importance of income comparison with Dutch natives is positively correlated to life satisfaction … Turkish immigrants. Perceived importance of income comparison with relatives in the Netherlands is positively correlated to …
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what some authors defend, it is not only the cultural factors that channel immigrants into certain segments of the labour … market. Several structural factors associated to these immigrants' arrival should be considered: the immigration policy of …
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Usually, immigrants have been studied as employed work force. However, they often choose to become entrepreneurs …. According to the relevant literature, there are evidences that immigrants are more entrepreneurially active than local … objective of this study is to verify how the entrepreneurial activity of rural immigrants responds to socio-institutional traits …
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For the Taiwan-born male and female wage earners in America and Canada, this paper attempts to find their wage gaps between the two host countries and to explain the wage gaps by three factors (educational attainment, the age at entering the host country, and the recency of the entry) in the...
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This paper assesses how new immigrants to Spain fare in the country's labor market, evaluating the conditions under … Labor Force Survey data from 2000 through 2011, we find that immigrants who arrived before the 2008 recession had little … skyrocketed. Immigrants' individual characteristics had a limited effect on their employment trajectories. Although many …
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influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …
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This paper analyses the intergenerational income mobility for natives and immigrants in Switzerland. An IV approach … subgroups of the Swiss population shows strong differences between Swiss and immigrants. Compared to natives, immigrants are … for natives is found to be similar for all income quantiles. Among immigrants, mobility is higher at the lower as well as …
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There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...
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Probit analysis to a sample of over 37,900 employed males. We focus on the occupational attainment of immigrants and the …
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