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The relationship between religion and earnings: recent evidence from the NLS Youth Cohort

Steen, Todd P. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) 5/6, pp. 572-581

Does religious and denominational background affect earnings and human capital investment? This paper examines … family background in order to isolate the impact of religion and denomination. The paper contains results from analyses of … different racial and ethnic groups. The method used for the analysis is the estimation of human capital earnings functions. The …

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Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

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International migration and the economics of language

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014

acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …

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Religion, Human Capital Investments and the Family in the United States

Lehrer, Evelyn L. - 2009

This paper critically reviews what is known, based on analyses of micro-level U.S. data, about the role of religion in …

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Religion, Human Capital Investments, and the Family in the United States

Lehrer, Evelyn L. - In: The Oxford handbook of the economics of religion. 2012

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Sectarian competition and the market provision of human capital

Xiong, Heyu; Zhao, Yiling - In: The journal of economic history 83 (2023) 1, pp. 1-44

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Specific capital and technological variety

Jovanovic, Boyan; Rousseau, Peter L. - 2008

"Growth of technological variety offers more scope for the division of labor. And when a division of labor requires some specific training, the technological specificity of human capital grows and, with it, probably the firm specificity of that capital. We build a simple model that captures this...