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stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language on linguistic minority students' demand for, as well as … opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university level. The reform that we consider obligated all minority students …, including those studying in public schools with a full cycle of education in minority languages, to take a standardized school …
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More unaccompanied refugee children arrive to and get a residence permit in Sweden than in any other country in Europe. The number of children who arrives is increasing fast. The Swedish experiences are therefore of great interest also for other countries. In this paper we study the labour...
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The distribution of Roma and non-Roma students across schools has become considerably more unequal in Hungary since the 1980's. This paper analyzes the effect of school choice and local educational policies on that inequality, known as school segregation, in 100 Hungarian towns. We combine...
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leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students. -- STEM majors ; minorities ; college graduation …
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The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have...
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This study examines friendship and hostility relations between Roma students and the ethnically homogeneous non-Roma majority in Hungarian schools, where anti-Roma sentiments are strong. High-achieving Roma students have significantly more friends and fewer adversaries than low-achieving ones...
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found that the extent to which differences in the composition of and returns to parental resources determine white-minority …
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leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students …
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Using data from the 2009 American Housing Survey and Hazard Model, this paper provides empirical evidence that the homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent deterioration of underwriting practices and a...
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more generally) comes in at least two different types. The classic appropriate representation benefits members of minority … kind is best known in the field of employment. Another type of appropriate representation grows out of the minority rights … movement. Unlike classic affirmative action programs, this type involves minority communities directly. The minority community …
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