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Learning the Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement

Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; Miaari, Sami H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school).Finally, it was found that the …

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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000

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

This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and … non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The data are from the microdata files from the …, American Jews had a greater proportion in the high level occupations (managerial and professional) in 1990, and the difference …

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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000: A Preliminary Report

Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States since 1965 appear to have made a very …

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The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … of most contemporary American Jews. Starting in operative, craft and laborer jobs in small scale manufacturing or in …. American Jews, from the earliest period to the present, have had high rates of self-employment compared to the non-farm white …

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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000

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

similar to the patterns found among Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants appear to have made a very …

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The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity

Chiswick, Barry R.; Huang, Jidong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

variables have similar effects for Jews and the general population. Jewish day schooling as a youth enhances earnings. Earnings … vary by denomination, with Conservative Jews earning the most. The effect on earnings of religiosity (measured by synagogue …

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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of Jewish workers in Israel over the 13-year time period, 1983-1995. Work histories are constructed from a new joint database, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995...

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Wage Mobility in Israel: The Effect of Sectoral Concentration

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Using a unique eight-year data set, merging population census and national insurance data, the paper examines and compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private sectors are compared. Second, within each of these sectors, a distinction is made between sub-sector...

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Job Quality in Segmented Labor Markets: The Israeli Case

Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees, and the employer or the employers'-association) was the norm, granting salaried workers a stable and protected labor contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the...

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