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vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … constitutes a case in point. However, little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising …, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews …
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This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. Using a large cross-country dataset, variation in the share of immigrant children between...
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This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of … natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of … mild effects on education outcomes, we also find little effect of foreign peers affecting early labour market outcomes of …
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This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...
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characteristics (income and education), immigrant generation, number of siblings, mother's labor supply and country of origin. Among …
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zur Immigration nach Herkunft und Typ. Der individuelle (und elterliche) Immigrationshintergrund beeinflusst zahlreiche …
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decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area … increases intergenerational income mobility among natives and by showing that immigration may, under specific circumstances …
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Many countries are experiencing increasing inflows of immigrant students. This raises concerns that having a large share of students for whom the host country language is not their first language may have detrimental effects on the educational outcomes of native children. However, the evidence...
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' performance. This negative impact is stronger among natives with low parental education. We also report a negative effect of the … concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …
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the existing literature. Our results have implications for the wider social effects of immigration and how foreign …
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