We investigate the effect of affirmative action policies in a statistical discrimination model with two stages. A group of workers face discrimination in both hiring and promotion decisions of the firm, and the regulator is free to intervene in both stages. We show that there are affirmative action policies which can eliminate negative employer beliefs by increasing educational investment in th...

The chapters in this issue originated in the Comparative and International Education seminar given each year at the Pennsylvania State University and re#ect nearly two years of ongoing work analyzing minority educational policy from a cross-national perspective. There are three goals of this special issue. The "rst is to provide readers with case studies of the impact of national educational po...

This paper investigates the effect of the reduction in the young cohort size caused by Chinese family planning policies on the educational upgrading among older cohorts born before the policies. I suggest that family planning polices reduce the size of the young cohorts and increase their educational levels. Through imperfect substitutability of workers with same education but different ages, t...

In this paper we study the determinants and distribution of Argentina ́s educational quality measured by PISA 2000 reading test scores. To do that, we estimate educational production functions at the mean of the distribution using survey weighted regressions and at different parts of the score ́s distribution with quantile regressions. We also estimate the Theil 2 Index of inequality applied to t...

Goal Access to Education to all students – migrant students Educational policies aim – migrant students integration and their educational success Access to specialized PL2 classes in primary and secondary schools Identifying the gap Newly arrived migrant students, non-native speakers of Portuguese-insufficient proficiency in Portuguese Schools sometimes have difficulties in offering teaching ac...

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The work reported herein was supported in part by the Educational Research and Development Center program, agreement number R309A60001, CFDA 84.309A, as administered by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education. The findings and opinions expressed in the report do not reflect the position or policies of OERI or the U.S. Department of Education. Publ...

The MLA Knowledge and Skills Task Force was appointed in May 1989. The task force decided to survey a sample of the membership to define the knowledge and skills required for competent professional performance and to enable MLA to establish educational policies which would ensure acquisition and maintenance of the necessary knowledge and skills throughout a professional career. This report pres...

Over the past two decades the educational policies of neo-liberal nation states have exhibited contradictory tendencies, promoting both bureaucratic standardization of curriculum and standardized evaluation on the one hand, and postmodern diversification on the other. Despite recent increases in bureaucratic standardization, I argue that the economic, social and cultural effects of globalizatio...