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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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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 … differences by religion. Other determinants of earnings the same, including schooling, American Jewish men earned about 16 percent …
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several data sets (the International Social Survey Program – ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey – ESS … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state-religion …
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the Economics of Religion and the Economics of Immigration, and distinguishes between religiosity per se and an immigrant …
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The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...
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religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …
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countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host …
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In the current study, we analyze the effect of having a Roma background on women's wages. By utilizing the Athens Area … Roma in low-paid jobs and employers' statistical motivations are also found to influence wages earned by Roma. This study … previous studies of Roma employment, and it could inspire new efforts to compare wages by Roma background. …
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. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are close to actual wages, whereas the expectations … of the deviation of individual expectations from actual wages can not be explained, we find that rates of return to …
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Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multireligious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...
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