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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

wages. In some countries where labour markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good match …

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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the …, particularly those relating to the considerable amount of intermittent employment found amongst Israeli male workers. Also, women …

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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination and Selectivity

Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The purpose of this Paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labour market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...

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'Bend It Like Beckham': Identity, Socialization and Assimilation

Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We first develop a model of identity formation resulting from the interaction of cultural transmission and socialization inside the family, peer effects and social interactions, and identity choice. We then put the model to data using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities. We show...

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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment … for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not …

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Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives

Uhlendorff, Arne; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the … duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …

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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to...

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