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Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka . A theme of convergence is central to the narrative. Slaves were … Emancipation, black children continued to face many obstacles in acquiring education. In addition to their relative poverty and …
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Developing countries' ability to issue diaspora bonds depends upon the wealth of their diaspora. We use the New Immigrants Survey data to determine the wealth accumulation and assets diversification of recent immigrants to the USA from different regions of the world. Our quantile (median)...
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While the relationship between education and general health has been firmly established in the literature, surprisingly …
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logistic regressions and a relative measure of education are used to model smoking histories until age 34. The following … the epidemic in France than in the United States, and; a divide between the highest level of education and the others in … relationship between education and health and the need for policies that target educational disparities. …
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. Informed by the evidence on the relationship between work pressure and higher education, we suggested reframing the … distribution of psychosocial work characteristics in the context of education. We differentiated psychosocial work resources from … resources and demands had inconsistent mediating effects on the education–health relationship. Higher educated employees were …
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While available evidence suggests that the events of September 11th negatively influenced the relative earnings of employees with Arab background in the US, it is not clear that they had similar effects in other countries. Our study for Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the...
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Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not...
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We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First …, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with …
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