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ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process. The skills of the next generation depend on parental …
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, sociologists and the general public believe that women work more. The widespread average equality does not arise from gender … in total work time—work for pay and work at home. In rich non-Catholic countries on four continents men and women do … about the same average amount of total work. Survey results demonstrate, however, that labor economists, macroeconomists …
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facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women’s total work is … from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work difference is due to within-couple differences. We … withineducation group and within-region gender differences in total work being smaller than inter-group differences. It is consistent …
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market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …
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This paper uses the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Public Use Samples of the U.S. Census to document what happened to immigrant earnings in the 1980s, and to determine if pre-1980 immigrant flows reached earnings parity with natives. The relative entry wage of successive immigrant cohorts declined by 9...
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This paper examines the evolution of immigrant earnings in the United States between 1970 and 2010. There are cohort effects not only in wage levels, with more recent cohorts having lower entry wages through 1990, but also in the rate of wage growth, with more recent cohorts experiencing less...
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-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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This paper analyzes the extent of labor market competition among immigrants, minorities and the native population. The study reveals that immigrants tend to be substitutes with some labor market groups, and complements with others. However, all these effects of shifts in immigrant supply on the...
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