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IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education …
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This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of...
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This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414973
This paper proposes an approach to identifying the education production function with endogenous inputs, and applies it … in the context of part-time employment decisions by UK teenagers in compulsory education. We identify simultaneously the …
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function for educational performance among UK teenagers in compulsory education. Our approach identifies the factors driving …
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We examine the role of education in fostering the economic integration of immigrants. Although immigrants in Europe are … affect the educational outcomes of immigrants. We focus our attention on pre-school attendance, school tracking, the …
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irrelevance of education for socio-economic position of immigrants once the country of origin has been controlled for. …Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation …
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We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational … Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm substantial inequality of educational achievements between immigrants and … natives, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit high intergenerational mobility and no less opportunities …
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show that aggregation bias strongly inflates estimates of the relationship between immigrants' educational attainment and … attainment than parental education. …
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the same time frame. Distinguishing Hispanic students by immigrant generation, I find that the children of immigrants … vastly understate the progress of first- and second-generation Hispanic immigrants. From a negative gap in 3rd grade, these …
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