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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
components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …) Language is shed before religion, and religion may not be shed at all, except among the ultra highly skilled of EB-1. (4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999162
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778775
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Globalization and Income Inequality
Vivarelli, Marco; Meschi, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
ability in serving the differentiated and high-quality markets of the developed world. …
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Cesur, Resul; Mocan, Naci - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and...
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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior
Heineck, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …
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The Effect of Behavioral Codes and Gender on Honesty
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of...
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …
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Sinners or Saints? Preachers' Kids and Risky Health Behaviors
Delaney, Jason J.; Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the clergy, more commonly known as preachers' kids (PKs). We use latent variable and zero-inflated count models to analyze the effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265649
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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …
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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
Judaism in the first half of the millennium, we build a model in which Jewish men choose education, occupation, religion, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233730