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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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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy : theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

' education. -- Remittances ; Migration ; Brain Drain ; Immigration Policy …We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human …

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Immigration, fertility and human capital : a model of economic decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...

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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics

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

Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant...

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Migrants, ethnicity and the welfare state

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local...

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Even education and experience has its limits : closing the wage gap

Epstein, Gil S.; Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez - 2014

Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for...

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Ethnosizing immigrants : a theoretical framework

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2014

called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration …

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Assimilation through marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2012

During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to … versus no assimilation between the groups. -- Assimilation ; Migration ; Marriage ; Culture …

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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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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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