We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to … natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information …

the health of immigrants and the positive selection, screening and discrimination applied by the host countries. In this … data we are able to compare Israel and Europe that have fundamentally different migration policies. Israel has virtually … natives; b) immigrants to Europe have better health than natives upon arrival and up to eleven years since arrival in the host …

in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting … caused by changing social norms. -- Assortative mating ; divorce ; marital instability ; immigration …

A snapshot at figures of immigration (Aliyah) to the Land of Israel (Palestine) and to the State of Israel reveals the … following: between 1882-1947, in successive waves of immigration, some 543,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, joining the 24 … population was about 24 percent, and between 1948-1952, mass immigration of 711,000 supplemented a population of 630 …

occupations. Wage differences are then examined and decomposed into 3 components: Endowments (human capital), discrimination and … selectivity. Following the methodology presented in Neuman and Oaxaca (2004), four alternative decompositions are suggested and …

two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …

effect of education on health, depending on gender. -- health ; education ; health behaviors ; Europe …

mainly the function of a buffer and of "balm to the soul". -- immigration ; religion ; integration ; Europe ; United States …This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two … sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of …