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What is Islamophobia? Disentangling Citizens’ Feelings Toward Ethnicity, Religion and Religiosity Using a Survey Experiment

Helbling, Marc; Traunmüller, Richard - In: British Journal of Political Science 50 (2020) 3, pp. 811-828

immigration is first and foremost the result of a rejection of fundamentalist forms of religiosity. This suggests that common … explanations, which are based on simple dichotomies between liberal supporters and conservative critics of immigration, need to be … current political controversy over Muslim immigration is related to this double opposition: it is less about immigrants versus …

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...

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Trust, Inequality, and Ethnic Heterogeneity

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using a large Australian social survey, combined with precise data on neighbourhood characteristics, I explore the factors that affect trust at a local level (‘localised trust’) and at a national level (‘generalised trust’). Trust is positively associated with the respondent’s...

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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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