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Peers play an essential role in cognitive and non-cognitive skills formation. Ordinal rank may also change incentives and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top university in Brazil, we apply a regression discontinuity...
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We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset …-born students, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Moreover, the presence of immigrants does not affect …
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The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong … contributes substantially to closing the wage gap with natives. The treatment effect is heterogeneous, favoring immigrants who are …
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approach confirm that host society culture is one of the determinants of wage discrimination endured by migrants …. -- immigration ; migration ; labour market ; culture ; political preferences ; wage discrimination ; Switzerland …This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage …
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concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions about the necessary policy responses … benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale …
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concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions about the necessary policy responses … benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale …
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concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions about the necessary policy responses … benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale …
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