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Immigration Math: It's a Long Story - New York Times - 0 views

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  • Children of immigrants complete more years of education than their native-born counterparts of similar socioeconomic backgrounds.
  • Being a child of immigrants, he said, "sort of boosts your driv
  • Still, it can take several generations for poor immigrant families to catch up to American norms.
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  • But despite the lag in education, Mr. Johnson said, Mexican immigrants and their families don't have much trouble finding jobs. "One of the paradoxes of Mexican immigration is that you have these workers with low skills but incredibly high employment rates," he said. "The second generation isn't able to maintain employment levels that are quite so high, but they're basically in the same ballpark."
  • By contrast, the children of recent arrivals face competition from successive waves of immigrants from numerous regions.
  • Professor Waldinger said that "the median for Indian immigrants is 16 years of schooling" and that, on balance, "the Indians, the Koreans, the Chinese — they're already successful." One reason, he added, is that society is "much more open to outsiders" in top jobs and at elite colleges than it ever was before.
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How highly educated immigrants raise native wages | vox - 0 views

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  • How highly educated immigrants raise native wages
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Tunisia enters 'phase of absurdity' - FT.com - 0 views

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  • “No development model will be able to find a solution to unemployment,” he says bluntly, citing the grim reality that at about 800,000 are already unemployed and another 100,000 enter the labour force every year. “The best we can do is create 100,000 jobs a year but you still have the 800,000. The solution should be immigration. There’s no other way.”
  • But to where?
  • The government also has raised with European partners the prospect of absorbing some of the highly skilled graduates. But while immigration could alleviate some of the pressure, surely it cannot be the solution.
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Fear of immigration is no reason for Britain to leave Europe - FT.com - 0 views

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  • Fear of immigration is no reason for Britain to leave Europe
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Wonkbook: Should high schoolers be reading Executive Order 13423? - geneell@gmail.com -... - 0 views

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  • More than 25% of U.S. technology companies have at least one foreign-born founder, a majority of Silicon Valley startups have a foreign-born founder, and 40% of Fortune 500 companies were created by an immigrant or first-generation American.”
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    good start on the 'brain drain'
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Germany Fights Population Drop - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Germany Fights Population Drop
  • But undoing years of subsidies for traditional households is difficult. “Touching those is political suicide,” said Michaela Kreyenfeld of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.
  • Many working mothers find themselves quickly pushed into poorly paid “mini” jobs — perhaps 17 hours a week for about $600 a month. More than four million working women in Germany, about a quarter of the female work force, hold such jobs.
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  • some executives believe Germany should change its immigration laws and accept foreign credentials
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      Gene Ellis on 18 Feb 15
       
      Note well:  Germany does not now accept foreign credentials??
  • The share of people ages 55 to 64 in the work force had risen to 61.5 percent in 2012, from 38.9 percent in 2002.
  • A recent study found that more than half the Greeks and Spaniards who came to Germany left within a year
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Educated in America: College graduates and high school dropouts | vox - 0 views

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  • The declining American high school graduation rate: Evidence, sources, and consequences
  • Throughout the first half of the 20th century, each new cohort of Americans was more likely to graduate high school than the preceding one. This upward trend in secondary education increased worker productivity and fueled American economic growth (Goldin and Katz 2003)
  • Contrary to claims based on the official statistics, we find no evidence of convergence in minority-majority graduation rates over the past 35 years. (4) Exclusion of incarcerated populations from the official statistics greatly biases the reported high school graduation rate for blacks.
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  • The graduation rate issued by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) – widely regarded as the official rate – shows that U.S. students responded to the increasing demand for skill by completing high school at increasingly higher rates. By this measure, U.S. schools now graduate nearly 88 percent of students and black graduation rates have converged to those of non-Hispanic whites over the past four decades.
  • Depending on the data sources, definitions, and methods used, the U.S. graduation rate has been estimated to be anywhere from 66 to 88 percent in recent years—an astonishingly wide range for such a basic statistic. The range of estimated minority rates is even greater—from 50 to 85 percent.
  • After adjusting for multiple sources of bias and differences in sample construction, we establish that (1) the U.S. high school graduation rate peaked at around 80 percent in the late 1960s and then declined by 4-5 percentage points; (2) the actual high school graduation rate is substantially lower than the 88 percent official estimate; (3) about 65 percent of blacks and Hispanics leave school with a high school diploma and minority graduation rates are still substantially below the rates for non-Hispanic whites.
  • Heckman, Lochner, and Todd (2008) show that in recent decades, the internal rate of return to graduating high school compared to dropping out has increased dramatically and is now over 50 percent
  • These trends are for persons born in the United States and exclude immigrants. The recent growth in unskilled migration to the U.S. further increases the proportion of unskilled Americans in the workforce apart from the growth due to a rising high school dropout rate.
  • The most significant source of bias in the official statistics comes from including GED (General Educational Development) recipients as high school graduates.
  • A substantial body of scholarship summarised in Heckman and LaFontaine (2008) shows that the GED program does not benefit most participants, and that GEDs perform at the level of dropouts in the U.S. labour market.
  • Men now graduate from high school at significantly lower rates than women
  • A significant portion of the racial convergence reported in the official statistics is due to black males obtaining GED credentials in prison. Research by Tyler and Kling (2007) and Tyler and Lofstrom (2008) shows that, when released, prison GEDs earn at the same rate as non-prison GEDs, and the GED does not reduce recidivism.
  • Evidence suggests a powerful role of the family in shaping educational and adult outcomes. A growing proportion of American children are being raised in disadvantaged families.
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Singapore, the Nation That Lee Kuan Yew Built, Questions Its Direction - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Singapore, the Nation That Lee Kuan Yew Built, Questions Its Direction
  • Battling a low birthrate among its citizens, the government opened the floodgates to foreign labor over the past decade and a half. More than a third of the 5.5 million people living in Singapore today are not citizens.The number of nonresident immigrants has more than doubled since 2000, to nearly 1.6 million from 754,000. The number of foreigners given permanent resident status also nearly doubled during the same period, to just over 500,000.
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