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Acculturation Identity and Educational Attainment

Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, Gülay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

) majority culture. Results indicate that integrated men are associated with significantly higher levels of education than …

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Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws

Cascio, Elizabeth; Lewis, Ethan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we test for a relationship between schooling and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing...

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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment … Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of workplace education and training using both subjective (managers’ assessments …) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …

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Leadership Skills and Wages

Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers’ "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as...

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Intergenerational Effects in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … mother’s or father’s education raises children’s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …

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Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment

Krueger, Alan B.; Zhu, Pei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public school students in grades K-4 were eligible to participate in a series of lotteries for a private...

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Migration, Remittances and Children’s Schooling in Haiti

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Georges, Annie; Pozo, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise school attendance for all children in some communities regardless of whether they have household...

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Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection, and High School Graduation in Mexico

Miranda, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

are estimated to control for the endogeneity of education and migrant network variables. Correlation of unobservables … across migration and education decisions as well as within groups of individuals such as the family are explicitly controlled …

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Demographic and Education Effects on Unemployment in Europe: Economic Factors and Labour Market Institutions

Biagi, Federico; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by cohort, gender and education -, we empirically test the economic effects … of two stylised facts that have occurred in recent decades: the "baby bust" and the "education boom". We find that …

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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

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