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Title: Low skilled immigration and the expansion of private schools
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Publication Year: 2009
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Abstract: A political-economic model is provided to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the receiving country's education system, in terms of sources of school funding, expenditure per pupil, and type of parents who are more likely to send children to privately funded schools. The education regime results from the interplay between households' choices on fertility and education, and the voted provision of public education.No exogenous culturally-based difference is assumed among agents. Low-skilled migrant workers differ from their local counterparts only with respect to voting rights and adjustment costs. The impacts of immigration on public school congestion, tax base, wages and skill-premium are considered. When the number of low-skilled immigrants is large, the education regime tends to become more segregated with wealthier locals more likely to opt out of the public system into private schools. The fertility differential between highand low-skilled locals increases due to a quantity/quality trade-off. The theoretical predictions conform to stylized facts revealed in both the U.S. census data and the OECD PISA (2003).
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Authors: Dottori, Davide; Shen, I-Ling
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Publication Number: 726
Institution: Banca d'Italia Eurosistema
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Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration
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