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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

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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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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

increased over the next decade. Among Jews and among non-Jews, there were only small gender differences in the proportions in … the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American …

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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

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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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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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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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Egalitarian Religion and Economics

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...

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The Informal Labour Market in India: Transitory or Permanent Employment for Migrants?

Junankar, Pramod N.; Shonchoy, Abu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their life time income and life style. We limit our study to the Indian urban...

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Immigrants and Religion

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new country. This paper considers the interaction between the Economics of Religion and the Economics of...

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