The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a … immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …

for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender …

from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …

National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender … Jewish workers in Israel over the 13-year time period, 1983-1995. Work histories are constructed from a new joint database …’s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …

We analyze first time parents’ work patterns. Little empirical work exists on the influence of the partner’s (change of … the infant is 3-5 months (when the Dutch family has to "choose" its paid parental work arrangement). Fathers do change … week after the birth of the first child, makes it more likely that the mother starts work when the infant is 3-5 months old …

). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are … sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …