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Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work …

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Migration and Stratification

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances – who gets what and why – and migration is about improving life chances – getting...

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler (Cohen), Odelia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

, gender, education, religion, etc.) on their ethnic identity using the ethnosizer. This note presents a basic theoretical …

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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …

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Economic and Cultural Gaps among Foreign-born Minorities in Spain

de la Rica, Sara; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education …

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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity for relative economic performance. …

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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models

Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients …

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Skin Tone's Decreasing Importance on Employment: Evidence from a Longitudinal Dataset, 1985-2000

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate the effect of skin tone on employment probabilities in a longitudinal data set. Using an objective measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin tone on employment has diminished. These results hold...

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Assimilation in Multilingual Cities

Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Using the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e. francophones in English-speaking cities and anglophones in...

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