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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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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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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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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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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 paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...
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Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an overview of the current situation and assesses different policy options. It emphasizes the role of stronger intra-EU mobility of young workers, policies to make vocational...
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new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … in Europe. Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is … tentative evidence that the migration response to the crisis has been considerable in Europe, in contrast to the United States …
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supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. We also investigate the relative contribution of different methodological …, both in the US and in Europe. …
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empirical sketch on to what extent Europe has already succeeded with respect to this ambitious goal. The result is quite …
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