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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

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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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

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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The mechanisms of spatial mismatch

Gobillon, Laurent; Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

properly tested. In this survey, we present relevant facts, review the theoretical models of spatial mismatch, confront their …

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Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets

Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data indicates that minorities face longer commute times to work,...

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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyse close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ‘discrimination’, whether …

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Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories

Gobillon, Laurent; Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities — and particularly blacks — have remained in city centres. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

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Labour Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper analyses the labour mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white-collar occupations, where the labour market randomly offered...

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

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. In some countries where labour markets are...

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Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? The Austrian Experience

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the risk to natives of becoming unemployed …

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