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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

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Age at immigration and high school dropouts

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2014

We focus on high school dropout rate among male and female immigrant children. We consider the relationship between the dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of 1996-2011 we show that the share of high school...

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Multi-generation model of immigrant earnings : theory and application

Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Can an ethnic group climb up from the bottom of the ladder?

Epstein, Gil S.; Siniver, Erez - 2012

Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....

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Job quality in segmented labor markets : the Israeli case

Neuman, Shoshana - 2014

Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees, and the employer or the employers'-association) was the norm, granting salaried workers a stable and protected labor contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the...

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