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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
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In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...
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reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using data of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey … of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …
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2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum …
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-monetary working conditions in Europe over the period 1995–2005 combining information from the World Robotics Survey and the European … Working Conditions Survey. In order to deal with the possible endogeneity of robot deployment, we employ an instrumental …
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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 … several data sets (the International Social Survey Program – ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey – ESS …
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This paper presents a modified and improved methodology for the decomposition of wage differentials between two groups … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … into the wage differential decompositions, two statistical methodologies are merged: the Oaxaca methodology and the Heckman …
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