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Health and educational performance among young migrants
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Bruce David Kirkcaldy
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Adrian Furnham
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February 28, 2013
Abstract
This study is a part replication of an earlier study by on health efficacy, educational attainment and well-being among 30 nations. It includes, however, data from these nations, as well as the latest Pisa results and update socioeconomic data and sociological variables which include divorce rate, number of persons/household, employment rates, and measures of physical and mental health (including new scales of well-being, e.g., mental health index, life satisfaction, suicide rates). More importantly, it includes measures of migrant rates among children and adults in each country, the focus of attention of this article. New material on health and educational expenditure are provided.
Received: 2011-11-1
Accepted: 2011-12-17
Published Online: 2013-02-28
Published in Print: 2013-03-01
©2013 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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