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On the road to integration? : immigrant's demand for informal (& formal) education
Coniglio, Nicola; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - 2019
In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … education enhances the likelihood of greater socio-economic integration in the host society. We first develop a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149384
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Education, spatial disparities in schooling and black-white interracial marriage
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2020
-white interracial marriages. Different from the previous studies that focus only on the role of individual education levels in …. The relative importance of three mechanisms through which education may affect intermarriage probability is examined: (1 … black and white education distributions have a significant impact on the black/white interracial marriage probability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266431
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Microsimulation projection of the educational integration and labour force participation of first- and second-generation immigrants
Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Spielauer, Martin; Fink, Marian - 2020
only a minor impact on future labour force participation dynamics. In contrast, closing education and labour force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012319591
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014521056
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461378
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The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration
Stuart, Bryan; Taylor, Evan J. - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of social connectedness on crime across U.S. cities from 1970 to 2009. Migration networks among African Americans from the South generated variation across destinations in the concentration of migrants from the same birth town. Using this novel source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005929
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Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
Stuart, Bryan; Taylor, Evan J. - 2019
This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U.S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending location. Our estimates imply that when one randomly chosen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141344
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The effect of social connectedness on crime : evidence from the Great Migration
Stuart, Bryan A.; Taylor, Evan J. - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of social connectedness on crime across U.S. cities from 1970 to 2009. Migration networks among African Americans from the South generated variation across destinations in the concentration of migrants from the same birth town. Using this novel source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993427
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Migration networks and location decisions : evidence from U.S. mass migration
Stuart, Bryan A.; Taylor, Evan J. - 2019
This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U.S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending location. Our estimates imply that when one randomly chosen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127192
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Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan G. - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4 (2012) 3, pp. 91-117
We examine whether low-skilled immigration to the United States has contributed to immigrants' residential isolation by reducing native demand for public schools. We address endogeneity in school demographics using established Mexican settlement patterns in California and use a comparison group...
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