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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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The Next frontier – Neuroscience of Education
Brăescu, Adriana - In: Postmodern Openings 5 (2014) 4, pp. 101-109
could be entitled the “neuroscience of education”, based on some of the current issues associated with bioinformatics or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106688
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Cultural Influences Across Time and Space: Do Source-country Gender Roles Affect Immigrant Women's Paid and Unpaid Labour Activity?
Frank, Kristyn; Hou, Feng - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2013
Canadian immigrants come from a range of source countries which vary considerably in gender roles. Examining gender roles is therefore valuable in determining whether cultural norms continue to influence labour activities after immigrants have been exposed to the new environment of their host...
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Influences culturelles au fil du temps selon le lieu : les roles des hommes et des femmes dans le pays d'origine influent-ils sur l'activite remuneree et non remuneree des femmes i...
Frank, Kristyn; Hou, Feng - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2013
Les immigrants au Canada proviennent d'un vaste eventail de pays, ou les roles des hommes et des femmes varient considerablement. Il est par consequent utile d'examiner les roles des hommes et des femmes pour determiner si les normes culturelles continuent d'influencer l'activite sur le marche...
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The determinants of overeducation: Evidence from the Italian labour market
Morano, Clemente Pignatti - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
The paper analyses the determinants of overeducation in the Italian labour market for workers with an MSc degree, using data from the National Labour Force Survey during the 2006-2011 period. The results confirm the findings obtained by previous studies regarding the relationship between...
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Education, Institutions and Growth: Fact-finding using available data
Patron, Rossana - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
The data analysis on education, institution and growth shed further light on the limitations to empirical research as … standard (though with a loss of precision). Secondly, the internal analysis on education institutions using aggregated data on … schools, staff, resources and practices from Pisa 2012, aids to link good education outcomes with “softer” variables (in …
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School choice, equity and efficiency: International evidence from PISA-2012
Pineda, Oscar Montes; Rubalcaba, Luis - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
School choice is one of the most researched topics in the educational sciences in the last decades. Its importance in reorganizing educational systems in many countries is unquestionable. Current literature underline that its impact should be positive under certain policy framework: this is...
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The Long-Term Effects of Protestant Activities in China
Chen, Yuyu; Wang, Hui; Yan, Se - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2014
2000, we find that although improvements in education and health care outcomes account for a sizable portion of the total …
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Does agglomeration matter everywhere?: new firm location decisions in rural and urban markets
Artz, Georgeanne M.; Kim, Younjun; Orazem, Peter - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2014
We test whether commonly used measures of agglomeration economies encourage new firm entry in both urban and rural markets.  Using new firm location decisions in Iowa and North Carolina, we find that measured agglomeration economies increase the probability of new firm entry in both urban and...
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Revisiting the determinants of informal sector in Burkina Faso
Traoré, Jean Abel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
important role of education in occupational choice. To empirically test our hypothesis, we estimate a two-stage degenerated … increases with the level of education. In the informal sector education attainment tends to reduce the probability of self …
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