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Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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 …

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Culture, Religiosity and Female Labor Supply

Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gökce - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...

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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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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …

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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?

Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

, that differences in trust levels between the two host countries increase with acculturation. …

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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...

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Cultural Diversity: A Matter of Measurement

Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of...

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Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind

Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration … are much more likely to be employed in non-wage activities (i.e. unpaid family work) and subsistence work compared to …

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Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players

Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...

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Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...

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