's (1957) seminal work on employer discrimination - something which has not previously been done in the large economics … criticisms and extensions of the standard Becker model, including an argument of our own which, like some recent work, shows that …

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … interactions where non-work relationships facilitate the acquisition of sector-specific skills. The resulting scale economies …

This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk … fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the … diaspora-based contracts mainly serve to lower costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are …

indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …

fundamental challenges faced by empirical work in this area. Specifically, for work devoted to measuring whether and how much … of study. For work seeking to arbitrate empirically between the two main alternative theoretical explanations for such … recent and much less common. We highlight problems with both approaches. Throughout, we discuss recent work, which, the …

mask two interesting patterns: (a) gender difference at the cohort level had vanished by the early 1950 birth cohort and …