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Racial identity and education
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2006
identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a positive effect of white teenagers' test … friends (which is a measure of own identity) and the parent's education that are responsible for the difference in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267548
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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in The Netherlands
van Ours, Jan C.; Veenman, Justus - 2001
Since the mid-1960?s the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrants have a weak labor market position, which is related to their educational level and language...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262503
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Acculturation identity and educational attainment
Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, Gülay - 2007
This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the … consequences of identity for subsequent educational attainment. Unique for this study is that identity is defined according to a … two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both strength of identity to the (ethnic) minority and to the (Swedish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268239
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African Americansà pursuit of self-employment
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2007
This study examines causes of black/white gaps in business ownership and self-employment rates by analyzing small-business entry and exit patterns. We proceed by recognizing heterogeneity in business ownership across different industry groups: a classification of firms by human- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268143
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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level
Alcobendas, Miguel Angel; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; … - 2012
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
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Intermittent Employment : Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2004
This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of Jewish workers in Israel over the 13-year time period, 1983-1995. Work histories are constructed from a new joint database, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262092
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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel : Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labor market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262115
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Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262283
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269449
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Gender, economic development and Islam: A perspective from France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012
Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of women is a sine qua non for economic progress; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower...
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