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measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those …. Given the low labor force participation of females from ethnic minorities, the role of ethnicity in forming those attitudes … differences for time spent on childcare. The ethnicity effect is also heterogenous across different socioeconomic groups. Hence …
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While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have remained low. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants and scale of European migration. It surveys previous historical experiences and empirical findings including the recent Eastern enlargements....
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roles depending on gender. We find some evidence that it is the Russian ethnic minority in Estonia and Latvia that drives …
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nonminority white female entrepreneurs and slightly less than observationally similar Latinas in wage/salary work. …
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substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity – women and immigrants …
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More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey...
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wages. They do, however, work less hours and have a lower annual income. The results also suggest that for them, the income … effect dominates the substitution effect and they substitute market work with home production, specifically with childcare. …
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This paper examines causes of the low self-employment rates among Mexican-Hispanics by studying self-employment entry utilizing the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The data show that Mexican-Hispanics are less likely to be selfemployed as well as entering...
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Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the 2009 American Community Survey, we analyze earnings differences between H-1B visa holders and US born workers in STEM occupations. The data indicate that H-1Bs are younger and...
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