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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 spent there more than 50 years shows a comparable...
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the main gateway of the Venezuelan refugees and migrants entering Brazil, and focusing on the formal sector employment of … Brazil has risen steadily since 2016, constituting about 18.6 percent of Brazil's 1.4 million refugee and migrant population …
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Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international … survey methods in collecting data from Japanese-Brazilian families, many of whom send migrants to Japan. The three surveys … Nikkei community gatherings, ethnic grocery stores, sports clubs, and other locations where family members of migrants are …
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endogeneity. The results show that the probability of African American migrants choosing a city is significantly reduced by per … to test their continued relevance to African Americans. I construct several measures of racial intolerance towards … African Americans using hate crime activity and the feelings of white Americans about race extracted from a national social …
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Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning differentials reflect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in...
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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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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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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....
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composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover …, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical …
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This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic … control for migrants' observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evidence that migrants' well … demonstrate that migrants regard home countries as natural comparators and, thereby, suggest an original assessment of the …
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