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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent …) Language is shed before religion, and religion may not be shed at all, except among the ultra highly skilled of EB-1. (4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269358
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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
several data sets (the International Social Survey Program - ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey - ESS … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state-religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282226
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An Economic Perspective on Religious Education : Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2005
religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272728
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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (on ethnicity, religion and war)
Iyigun, Murat - 2008
examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277709
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Diversity and public goods: A natural experiment with exogenous residential allocation
Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David - 2011
This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282431
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Qualifying religion: the role of plural identities for educational production
Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2008
capture conservative or progressive values in addition to the cultural characteristics language and religion. Catholic … sociocultural characteristics qualifies the role of religion for educational production. The evidence suggests that Catholicism is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268662
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Unravelling secularization: an international study
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2007
The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it …. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones … tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly correlated with the degree of strictness of their country and with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268893
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Ethnic competition and specialization
Kahanec, Martin - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268355
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Work and money: payoffs by ethnic identity and gender
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269182
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Oppositional identities and employment for ethnic minorities: evidence from England
Battu, Harminder; Zenou, Yves - 2009
Where a community or group is socially excluded from a dominant group, some individuals of that group may identify with the dominant culture and others may reject that culture. The aim of this paper is to investigate this issue by empirically analyzing the potential trade-off for ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269535