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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233730
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Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions: Worker Mobility, Earnings Risk, and Contract Structure
Schöb, Ronnie; Wildasin, David E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of labor market integration, in the form of worker mobility, in a model with long-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment. Reflecting the interdependence of regional labor markets, we develop a general-equilibrium framework where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762229
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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Regets, Mark C.; Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822525
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Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market
Molloy, Raven; Smith, Christopher L.; Wozniak, Abigail - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764604
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Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized – in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday – than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects...
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The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences
Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...
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Unemployment and Mortality: Evidence from the PSID
Halliday, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. In particular, we show that a one percentage point increase in the … unemployment rate increases their mortality hazard by 6%. There is little to no such relationship for people with weaker labor …
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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884097
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Economic Integration of Intermarried Labour Migrants, Refugees and Family Migrants to Sweden: Premium or Selection?
Irastorza, Nahikari; Bevelander, Pieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use Swedish register data to compare the employment and income of immigrants who intermarry natives versus those of immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees and family migrants. We find that intermarried...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884098
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The Timing of Preference and Prejudice in Sequential Hiring Games
Waddell, Glen R.; Lee, Logan M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We model a hiring process in which the candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of the firm who each observe an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and characterize how one agent's private valuation of the...
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