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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … pictures to identify race, ethnicity, and gender. We show that one can use LinkedIn data to obtain reasonably reliable measures … of workforce demographic composition by race, ethnicity, and gender, based on validation exercises comparing estimates …
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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees
Cohodes, Sarah R.; Ho, Helen; Robles, Silvia C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The federal government and many individual organizations have invested in programs to support diversity in the STEM pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a...
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Ph.D. Publication Productivity : The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa
Rossello, Giulia; Cowan, Robin A.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in … introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We investigate the joint effects of gender and race for the whole sample and … female students working with male advisors when looking at the joint effects of gender and race for the white-white and black …
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The Minimum Wage and Inequality Between Groups
Blau, Francine D.; Cohen, Isaac; Comey, Matthew L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the present day …
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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...
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The Refugee Advantage : English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Catron, Peter; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The United States has admitted more than 3 million refugees since 1980 through official refugee resettlement programs. Scholars attribute the success of refugee groups to governmental programs on assimilation and integration. Before 1948, however, refugees arrived without formal selection...
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Mortality Differentials, the Racial and Ethnic Retirement Wealth Gap, and the Great Pandemic
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that the Black/white gap in standard net worth widened from 1989 to 2019 but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social Security and defined benefit pension wealth (both the...
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The Racial Wealth Gap, Financial Aid, and College Access
Levine, Phillip B.; Ritter, Dubravka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate impact on college access and outcomes. Retirement savings and home equity are excluded from the formula used to estimate the amount a family can afford to pay. All else equal,...
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The Impact of Minority Representation at Mortgage Lenders
Frame, W. Scott; Huang, Ruidi; Mayer, Erik J.; Sunderam, Adi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, and to ultimately take-up a loan. These disparities are significantly reduced when minority borrowers work with minority …
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