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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim … societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676292
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Determinants of Transitions across Formal / Informal Sectors in Egypt
Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the … first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125863
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Relative Concerns for Consumption at the Top: An Intertemporal Analysis for the UK
Quintana-Domeque, Climent; Wohlfart, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
choices of non-rich households from an intertemporal perspective. Using UK household data on food consumption, we estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959734
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Segregation, Choice Based Letting and Social Housing: How Housing Policy Can Affect the Segregation Process
van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive governments have expressed a commitment to the contradictory aims of providing greater choice – through the introduction of choice based letting – for households accessing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652102
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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
Reuschke, Darja; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359858
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Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … have been long standing unresolved identification issues in the literature. In keeping with the limited existing UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359860
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Variations in the Wage Returns to a First Degree: Evidence from the British Cohort Study 1970
Bratti, Massimiliano; Naylor, Robin; Smith, Jeremy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
As in many other countries, government policy in the UK has the objective of raising the participation rate of young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703359
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Social Class and Undergraduate Degree Subject in the UK
Bratti, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Although past research has found strong social class effects on the decision to undertake higher education in the UK … fees, the UK university system granted equal opportunities to students from different social classes in terms of the degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703685
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Productivity and Trade Orientation in UK Manufacturing
Rizov, Marian; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
within 4-digit UK manufacturing industries. We use the FAME data on UK companies over the period 1994-2003. Following … competitive pressure on non-exporters seem to have contributed to improvements of productivity in the UK manufacturing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703808
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Fly Me to the Moon: The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK
Heineck, Guido; Schwarze, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK. Although differing in labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822586