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Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a … immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …

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Culture or context? : revisiting the role of culture in shaping economic outcomes

Adnan, Wifag - 2019

researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of …

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Cultural values and decision to work of immigrant women in Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - 2014

from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …

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Determinants of women empowerment : case of refugee women living in Nairobi Kenya

Kaaria, Judy; Murithi, Immaculate Kathomi - In: Economies : open access journal 13 (2025) 2, pp. 1-19

gender of the household head; the education level of the refugee woman; employment status; and the education of the household … household income through care work. …

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Culture, religiosity and female labor supply

Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gokce - 2014

Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...

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A Historical Note on the Assimilation Rates of Foreign-Born Women in the U.S

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023

With historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.- born women. By following the same individuals we avoid biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. Our results contradict key predictions of...

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Source country culture and labor market assimilation of immigrant women in Sweden : evidence from longitudinal data

Neuman, Emma - In: Review of Economics of the Household 16 (2018) 3, pp. 585-627

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Ethnicity and gender in the labour market in Central and South East Europe

O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013

outcomes in the labour market than non-Roma women, in most CSEE countries the gender wage gap is significantly larger amongst … Roma compared to non-Roma. This paper seeks to analyze and explain differences in the gender gap in the wages amongst Roma …. The paper employs a non-parametric matching approach to identify the main factors underlying the gender wage gap …

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Ethnicity and Gender in the Labour Market in Central and South East Europe

O'Higgins, Niall - 2013

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The impact of affirmative action on the employment of minorities and women over three decades : 1973-2003

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - 2015

What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...

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