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The impact of 9/11 and the London bombings on the employment and earnings of U.K. Muslims
Rabby, Faisal; Rodgers, William M. - 2010
Using a difference-in-differences framework, this paper estimates the impact that Britain's July 2005 bombings had on the labor market outcomes of UK residents who are either Muslim by religious affiliation or whose nativity profiles are similar to the terrorists. We find a 10 percentage point...
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Discrimination against female migrants wearing headscarves
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2016
Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. From a policy perspective, integration of migrants into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females with backgrounds of migration from Muslim countries,...
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Do English skills affect Muslim immigrants' economic and social integration differentially?
Yuksel, Mutlu; Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Guven, Cahit - 2019
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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Labor market effects of intrauterine exposure to nutritional deficiency : evidence from administrative data on Muslim immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - 2014
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
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Religion and abortion : the role of politician identity
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2018
(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …
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Behind the veil : the effect of banning the islamic veil in schools
Maurin, Eric; Navarrete H., Nicolás - 2019
most emblematic of these regulations: the prohibition of Islamic veils in French schools. In September 1994, a circular … from the French Ministry of Education asked teachers and principals to ban Islamic veils in public schools. In March 2004 …
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The (hidden) financial flows of terrorist organizations : a literature review and some preliminary empirical results
Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
In this paper the financial means of international (mostly Islamistic) terror organizations are analysed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...
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Are Muslim immigrants different in terms of cultural integration?
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - 2007
Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims … and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having …-Muslim just arrived in the country. Furthermore, Muslims seem to follow a different integration pattern than other ethnic and …
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The effect of the Theo van Gogh murder on house prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with a unique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that general attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by the murder....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003529731
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Impact of industrialization on relative female survival : evidence from trade policies
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
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