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According to Marcus Winter, they are not highly correlated.
According to Marcus Winter, they are not highly correlated.
Sep 10 2011
Bryan Caplan writes: The children of the foreign-born go far beyond this. Immigrants hurt them the most, but they oppose immigration the least. How is this possible? The best explanation is that the children of the foreign-born, like many other groups, are group-interested voters. They're concerned about the well...
Sep 10 2011
Who loses the most from additional immigration? The data is clear: The biggest losers are immigrants who are already here. This is hardly surprising: recent and new arrivals are in close competition because they supply nearly identical skills. Ottaviano and Peri estimate that immigration from 1990-200...
Sep 9 2011
READER COMMENTS
Jim Glass
Sep 9 2011 at 8:45pm
This is news? A surprise?
steve
Sep 9 2011 at 9:47pm
We still have no good way to judge teacher quality.
Steve
VP
Sep 9 2011 at 11:47pm
I’m a public high school economics teacher in suburban DC. I wrote a (completely non empirical and very against-the-grain, pro-market) piece on teacher hiring and firing here:
http://vp-emergentorder.blogspot.com/
Komori
Sep 10 2011 at 11:32am
@Jim Glass
Apparently it is to teachers unions, which tend to force pay scales to be based on seniority and credentials while aggressively opposing any attempts to bring merit into the pay discussion. Not that this is going to change their direction.
steve
Sep 10 2011 at 11:38pm
Finalnd’s teachers are 95% unionized.
Steve
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