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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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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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Ethnic Identity and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment : Evidence from Proposition 187

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

specifically, Mexican. Linking data on self-reported ethnicity, ancestry, and parental place of birth with county-level voter … discrimination and hostility. At the same time, anti-minority sentiment may raise the salience of ethnicity and race and thus …

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Demographic Diversity and Economic Research : Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

Antman, Francisca M.; Doran, Kirk B.; Qian, Xuechao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find …

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Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans

Antman, Francisca M. - 2020

The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...

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Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market : Patterns Over Time and Across Generations

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This article reviews evidence on the labor market performance of Hispanics in the United States, with a particular focus on the US-born segment of this population. After discussing critical issues that arise in the US data sources commonly used to study Hispanics, we document how Hispanics...

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The Long-Run Impacts of Banning Affirmative Action in US Higher Education

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Lovenheim, Michael F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

highlight the importance of disaggregating results by gender, race, and ethnicity. We conclude by discussing how our results …

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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...

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Half Empty and Half Full? Women in Economics and the Rise in Gender-Related Research

Antman, Francisca M.; Doran, Kirk B.; Qian, Xuechao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators and dissertation topics. Despite … stagnation in the share of women among economics Ph.D.s in recent years, there has been a remarkable rise in gender …-related dissertations in economics over time and in many sub-fields. Women economists are significantly more likely to write gender …

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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010

market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …

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