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Age effects in education : a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrant children

Abatemarco, Antonio; Cavallo, Mariagrazia; Marino, … - 2021

interaction of the immigration background with age effects (namely, Absolute Age Effect and Relative Age Effect). In a policy … to the immigration background. …

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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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Age at immigration and high school dropouts

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Epstein, Gil S. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

We focus on high school dropout rates among male and female immigrant children. We consider the relationship between the dropout rate and age at arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of 1996 - 2011 we show that the share of high...

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Age at immigration and high school dropouts

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2014

We focus on high school dropout rate among male and female immigrant children. We consider the relationship between the dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of 1996-2011 we show that the share of high school...

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Age at immigration and high school dropouts

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2014

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A cohort integration analysis of work and education participation among internal mobile and non-mobile immigrants by reason for immigration

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2016

and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees … immigrants' reason for immigration. Immigrants who remain outside of employment and/or education is mostly to be found among … refugees, family-immigrants and immigrants with unspecified reason for immigration, while education- and labor-immigrants and …

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Length of stay in the host country and educational achievement of immigrant students : the Italian case

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014

Using Italian data on language standardized tests for three different levels of schooling we investigate if the observed gap in educational attainments in 1st generation immigrants tends to lower the longer they stay in Italy, and if younger children tend to catch up faster than their older...

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Immigrant Concentration at School and Natives' Achievement : Does the Type of Migrants and Natives Matter?

Bossavie, Laurent - 2017

concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …

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Immigration and Student Achievement : Evidence from Switzerland

Meunier, Muriel - 2010

This paper investigates empirically whether immigrant students in Switzerland perform poorly compared to their native counterparts and provides some explanations. Using a national sample of the 2000 PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) database, we first analyze the impact of...

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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second- generation immigrants

Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A.; Haaren-Giebel, … - 2015

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