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Is Child Like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 1999
difference in favor of father´s education over mother's education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839073
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Who Matters Most? The Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling
Gang, Ira N. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 1996
This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a "cross-cultural" context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839075
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Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 2014
gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – international migration and education – on the … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … participation by men domestically; increased female education, especially at the university and vocational level, increases female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944617
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Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – international migration and education – on the … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … participation by men domestically; increased female education, especially at the university and vocational level, increases female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959572
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Migration, education and the gender gap in labour force participation
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2014
gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … participation by men domestically; increased female education, especially at the university and vocational level, increases female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396830
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Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
difference in favor of father´s education over mother's education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262283
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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262388
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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277289
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Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2019
We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled migration is worrisome, many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984648
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Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263500