In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect substitutes within narrowly defined skill groups. The resulting complementarities have important policy implications because immigration may then raise the wage of many native-born workers. We examine the Ottaviano-Peri empirical exercise and show that their finding of imperfect subst...

This research is motivated by the low level of independence out-of-school teenagers in Nagari Pulau Mainan, Dharmasraya Regency, this presumably because parents' attention to dropout low. The objectives study are as follows: 1) find out how high parental dropping school at junior Regency; 2) determine dropouts 3) whether there a relationship between and Regency. uses quantitative correlational ...

Schools in border areas are threatened with closure due to the difficulty of organizing learning midst a pandemic. This paper portrays this reality by describing process school (Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Darul Furqon) on Sebatik Island (the Indonesia-Malaysia border) during COVID-19 School is foundation for children Indonesian migrant workers who work Malaysian oil palm plantations. Therefore, resear...

We investigate the effects of a positive income shock on mental health among adolescent girls using evidence from a cash transfer experiment in Malawi. Offers of cash transfers strongly reduced psychological distress among baseline schoolgirls. However, these large beneficial effects declined with increases in the transfer amount offered to the parents conditional on regular school attendance b...

This paper addresses the implications of transitory changes in labor market conditions for low versus high educated workers on the decision to acquire education. To identify this effect, I use the improvement in labor market prospects of low educated workers motivated by the increases in construction employment and wages during the recent housing boom. The estimation strategy is based on the fa...