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I examine whether after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Muslim immigrants and immigrants who fit the Muslim … religious and racial intolerance and discrimination relative to other immigrants. Further, I do not find evidence that after 9 …
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dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of …
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common among the more vulnerable sub-populations of new-immigrants, disabled individuals, Israeli-Arabs, foreign-workers and …
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Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for...
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, separation or marginalization. A large body of literature has emerged examining the effects of immigrants' characteristics (age …
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ancestry. The transmission of culture is higher among those in schools with a higher proportion of immigrants or in co …
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This paper assesses how new immigrants to Spain fare in the country's labor market, evaluating the conditions under … Labor Force Survey data from 2000 through 2011, we find that immigrants who arrived before the 2008 recession had little … skyrocketed. Immigrants' individual characteristics had a limited effect on their employment trajectories. Although many …
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It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in …
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evidence on the subject, which reaches several conclusions. First, immigrants are overrepresented in occupations and industries … with higher injury and fatality rates. Second, immigrants have higher work-related injury and fatality rates in some … advanced economies, but not all. Finally, most, but not all, immigrants appear to earn risk premiums similar to natives for …
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
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