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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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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 …
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in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652535
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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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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