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Erfolge trotz schlechter Startbedingungen: was hilft Migrantennachkommen in Frankreich und Deutschland?
Tucci, Ingrid; Jossin, Ariane; Keller, Carsten; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 41, pp. 3-11
Die Bildungs- und Erwerbsverläufe von Migrantenkindern in Frankreich und Deutschland sind äußerst vielfältig. In der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung dominieren die wenig Erfolgreichen. Dabei sind erfolgreiche Biographien junger Erwachsener mit Migrationshintergrund aber keineswegs eine zu...
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Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...
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Success Despite Starting out at a Disadvantage: What Helps Second-Generation Migrants in France and Germany?
Tucci, Ingrid; Jossin, Ariane; Keller, Carsten; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 1 (2011) 5, pp. 3-11
The educational and employment trajectories of migrant children in France and Germany are extremely diverse. The few successful ones dominate the public eye. Yet successful biographies of young adults with a migration background are in no way a negligible exception. However, the picture is...
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On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2011
changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …
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Human Capital and Productivity in British Columbia
Murray, Alexander; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011
This report provides an assessment of human capital development in British Columbia. The province's performance is above average according to the majority of the indicators we analyze, relative to both the rest of Canada and other OECD countries. However, this does not mean that there is no room...
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Education vs TFP: Empirical Evidence from The Sub-Saharan Countries
Donadelli, Michael - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera … - 2012
This paper investigates the \education-total factor productivity trade-o " in explaining per worker income dierences …, I am able to study separately the dynamic of the average years of schooling (i.e. education level), the per worker … capital, the per worker income, and the total factor productivity (TFP). I conrm that physical capital and education levels …
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Are you on the right track? The effect of educational tracks on student achievement in upper-secondary education in Hungary
Hermann, Zoltan - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2013
in upper-secondary education in Hungary. Rejected and admitted students are compared who applied to the same school and …
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La escuela importa: Incidencia de los factores asociados a la Escuela Pública sobre las competencias de los estudiantes de PISA 2006
Rocha, Pablo Da; Martínez, Juan Pablo; Rímoli, Philippe - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias … - 2011
completed their primary education at a public school. The analysis is based on the estimation of an educational production … the educational monitoring applied to the primary education. Among the main conclusions are that the yields of the … (student dimension), with their secondary education centre (high school dimension) and with the public school they attended …
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The Social Impact of a Fiscal Crisis: Investigating the Effects of Furloughing Public School Teachers on Juvenile Crime in Hawaii
Akee, Randall Q.; Halliday, Timothy J.; Kwak, Sally - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2013
Education and cancelling class for seventeen instructional days. We examine the effects of this unusually short school year to …
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The effect of schooling on health: Evidence on several health outcomes and behaviors
Braga, M.; Bratti, M. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
This paper investigates the non-pecuniary benefits of education in terms of several individuals' health outcomes … three years in Italy to identify the causal effect of lower secondary education and,unlike most previous papers in the …
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