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Treading Water in the High-tech Global Economy: An Investigation of United States Immigration Policy with an Eye on the H-1B Visa
Cynamon, Barry Z. - EconWPA - 2001
This paper addresses objections to immigration on the basis of their skill level—examining the historical results of … United States immigration policy in an effort to support a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to … include up to date media coverage as immigration policy is greatly affected by public opinion. Not only does an historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556501
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Staying Competitive in the High-tech Global Economy: Another Look at the H-1B Visa
Cynamon, Barry - EconWPA - 2001
This paper addresses a specific suggestion for immigration reform—that we must seek skilled immigrants—by examining … support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to include up to date media coverage as immigration … immigration and then reviews the current landscape of U.S. immigration and the H-1B visa market, showing the strong moral and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408048
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Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa
Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - EconWPA - 2004
South Africans unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world, and it has important distributional implications. The paper examines the incidence of unemployment using two national household surveys for the mid-1990s. Both entry to unemployment and the duration of unemployment are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556755
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Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition
Jurajda, Stepan - EconWPA - 2001
Transition countries hoping to join the European Union are in the process of introducing western-type anti-discrimination policies aimed at reducing the gender wage gap. The efficacy of these policies depends on the relative size of the gap's elements they target; therefore, it is important to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556832
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Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education by Ethnic Group: Evidence from Northeastern Brazil
Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice - EconWPA - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to examine inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education for the three main ethnic groups in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS), Bahia state, in Northeastern Brazil. Our results suggest that sheepskin effects take the traditional form of an additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125740
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An Equilibrium Search Model with Co-Worker Discrimination
Sasaki, Masaru - EconWPA - 1998
This paper analyzes the effect of co-worker discrimination on wage and unemployment differentials between males and females using a search model. In the presence of asymmetric co- worker discrimination, no female-dominated firm emerges in the labor market. An increase in female participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125794
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Categorical Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making
Fryer, Roland G.; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002
This paper introduces a psychological notion of categorization into economics and derives its implications for economic decision making. We show, using a tractable model of social cognition, that a decision maker in (efficiently) assigning past experiences to categories, will sort experiences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135029
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Gender Bias and The Indonesian Financial Crisis: Were Girls Hit Hardest?
Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2004
We analyze how the financial crisis affected a wide range of investments in Indonesian children and children's outcomes including school enrollment, immunizations, and mortality. Our dataset is the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas), a large nationally representative sample. We build on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407632
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Are Investments in Daughters Lower When Daughters Move Away?
Kevane, Michael; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2003
In much of the developing world daughters receive lower education and other investments than do their brothers, and may even be so devalued as to suffer differential mortality. Daughter disadvantage may be due in part to social norms that prescribe that daughters move away from their natal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407654
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Gender Bias and The Indonesian Financial Crisis: Were Girls Hit Hardest?
Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003
We analyze how the financial crisis affected a wide range of investments in Indonesian children and children's outcomes including school enrollment, immunizations, and mortality. Our dataset is the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas), a large nationally representative sample. We build on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407666