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Culture, Religiosity and Female Labor Supply

Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gökce - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...

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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...

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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Gataullina, Liliya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to naturalize beyond the standard individual and human capital …

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Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The European Union aims at a stronger participation by its population in work to foster growth and welfare. There are …

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The Effect of Enclave Residence on the Labour Force Activities of Immigrants in Canada

Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

It has been well documented that immigrants' clustering of residence in large cities has been associated with the creation of a number of ethnic enclaves. The intensive exposure to own-ethnic population could affect immigrant labour market involvement positively or negatively. However, no extant...

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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …

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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well …

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Economic and Cultural Gaps among Foreign-born Minorities in Spain

de la Rica, Sara; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education …

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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity for relative economic performance. …

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Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada

Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

by subsequently interacting educational attainments with ethnicity, mother tongue and city of residence support these …

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