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Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two …-religion relationship, immigration policies and concepts? The main findings are the following: (a) immigrants are indeed more religious than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652535
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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703360
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
legalization programs mandated by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 led to a stronger propensity to settle permanently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703686
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Education and Self-Employment: South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884310
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Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548723
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Volunteering and the State
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822746
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The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives
Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie F.; Giulietti, Corrado - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990924
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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Stillman, Steven; Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on subjective well-being are less clear, with some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990934
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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884112
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Superstition in the Housing Market
Fortin, Nicole M.; Hill, Andrew J.; Huang, Jeff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884125