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Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation

Cutler, David M. - 2005

This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and … 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades … segregation, as well as housing price patterns across metropolitan areas, to test four hypotheses of immigrant segregation …

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current...

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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 1997

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed ….S. to examine the relationship between black self-employment and immigration in both 1980 and 1990. To control for permanent …

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Immigration and the Welfare State : Immigrant Participation in Means- Tested Entitlement Programs

Borjas, George J. - 1995

This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state. The immigrant- native difference in the probability of receiving cash benefits is small, but the gap widens once other programs are included in the analysis: 21 percent of...

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Cross-Generational Differences in Educational Outcomes in the Second Great Wave of Immigration

Özek, Umut - 2016

We make use of a new data source - matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida - to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic...

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Empirical studies of strategic trade policy

Krugman, Paul R. (ed.); Smith, Alasdair (ed.) - 1994

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Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium

Bayer, Patrick - 2005

Black households in the United States with high levels of income and education (SES) typically face a stark tradeoff when deciding where to live. They can choose neighborhoods with high levels of public goods or a high proportion of blacks, but very few neighborhoods combine both, a fact we...

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Ethnicity, Language, and Workplace Segregation : Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2002

-Employee Dataset, or DEED) that we have undertaken as a part of a broad research agenda to study segregation in the U.S. labor market …. In this paper we examine the role of segregation by Hispanic ethnicity and language proficiency, contributing new …, previously unavailable descriptive information on segregation along these lines, and evidence on the wage premia or penalties …

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New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education : The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2002

Uncovering the effects of school racial composition on achievement is difficult, because racial mixing in the schools is not an accident but instead represents a complex mixture of government and family choices. While the goals of the integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of...

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Identifying and Estimating Neighborhood Effects

Graham, Bryan S. - 2016

Residential segregation by race and income are enduring features of urban America. Understanding the effects of … residential segregation on educational attainment, labor market outcomes, criminal activity and other outcomes has been a leading …

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