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This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on the occupational status of Jewish men and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses...
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This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by examining a previously underappreciated consequence of the rise in obesity in the United States: challenges for military recruitment. Specifically, this paper estimates the percent...
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Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and other social and economic variables. But the observed association between sex ratios and social and economic conditions may be confounded by omitted variables and reverse causality....
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This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two …-religion relationship, immigration policies and concepts? The main findings are the following: (a) immigrants are indeed more religious than …
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immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being … higher education attainment are less likely to choose self-employment, the probability is relatively higher in comparison to …
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wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the … immigration. An IV strategy, which deals with the endogeneity of immigration by exploiting a large influx of Central American … educated native men. Yet, ignoring the flows of native and earlier immigrants in response to this exogeneous immigration is …
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We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …
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This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational advantage over their English-speaking background (ESB)...
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opportunities as a way to deter further illegal immigration and as such is likely to increase poverty among an already marginalized …
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' selectivity has worsened through time. Historically, the educational selectivity of returning migrants accentuated the positive … selection of those migrants that stay in the United States in most countries' cases. However, patterns of selection among … migrants that stay have recently changed. A more detailed analysis with data from the last decade finds evidence of positive …
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