use an epidemiological approach, studying second-generation American women. I use both female LFP and attitudes in the …

; the inner nature of discrimination, negative attitudes and internal barriers; as well as the ethnic minorities’ desires … attitudes towards them. Insufficient knowledge of the official language, insufficient education, discriminatory attitudes and …

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database … unique source for micro- regional empirical research in economic history, enabling analyses of the importance of such factors …

Egyptian history than from other poor countries at that time since Egypt faced the same terms of trade boom typical of most …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …

The attitudes of ethnic majority populations towards other communities is a potentially important determinant of social … exclusion and of the welfare of ethnic minorities. The suggestion that negative attitudes towards minorities may be affected by …

This Paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus, with a … the empirically most relevant groups of immigrants and review the received literature on economic migration research in … welfare dependence of immigrants, is a matter of intense debate among economists and policy makers. We contrast the very …

This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual … incorporating welfare receipt into a theoretical model of the cultural transmission of work-welfare attitudes across generations …. Consistent with the predictions of our model, we find that young people’s attitudes towards work and welfare are shaped by …