States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data …

This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk … fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the … diaspora-based contracts mainly serve to lower costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are …

average skilled immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but conditional on educational attainment of …

rates today than in earlier time periods – if one focuses solely on the decision to work a positive number of hours … irrespective of marital status or race. If one, however, focuses on both the decision to work a positive number of hours as well as … the decision to adjust annual hours of work (conditional on working), I find some evidence of the opt-out revolution …

(i) client discrimination; (ii) other work-related discrimination; and (iii) harassment. Overall, our results indicate … that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers … disparity in self-assessed bias across gender and racial groups. …

-dominated occupations is also related to the willingness to work hard, impulsivity, and the tendency to avoid problems. The nature of these …