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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well …

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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those …. Given the low labor force participation of females from ethnic minorities, the role of ethnicity in forming those attitudes … differences for time spent on childcare. The ethnicity effect is also heterogenous across different socioeconomic groups. Hence …

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Scale, Diversity, and Determinants of Labour Migration in Europe

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

While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have remained low. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants and scale of European migration. It surveys previous historical experiences and empirical findings including the recent Eastern enlargements....

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Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

roles depending on gender. We find some evidence that it is the Russian ethnic minority in Estonia and Latvia that drives …

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East-West Migration and Gender: Is there a "Double Disadvantage" vis-à-vis Stayers?

Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

wages. They do, however, work less hours and have a lower annual income. The results also suggest that for them, the income … effect dominates the substitution effect and they substitute market work with home production, specifically with childcare. …

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Do Ethnic Minorities "Stretch" Their Time? Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure …

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The Optimal Size for a Minority

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each transaction can be carried out cooperatively or through a market mechanism, with cooperative transactions...

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In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...

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Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows

Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...

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Returning Home at Times of Trouble? Return Migration of EU Enlargement Migrants during the Crisis

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The eastern enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 have stimulated the mobility of workers from the new EU8 and EU2 countries. A significant proportion of these migrants stayed abroad only temporarily, and the Great recession may have triggered return intentions. However, a return may be...

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