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Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances – who gets what and why – and migration is about improving life chances – getting...

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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …

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Skin Tone's Decreasing Importance on Employment: Evidence from a Longitudinal Dataset, 1985-2000

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate the effect of skin tone on employment probabilities in a longitudinal data set. Using an objective measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin tone on employment has diminished. These results hold...

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Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks

Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the … importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by …

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Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...

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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...

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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results...

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The Racial Saving Gap Enigma: Unraveling the Role of Institutions

Belton, Willie; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

It has been well documented in the literature that ethnicity matters significantly in the determination of savings. In …

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Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...

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The Role of Race and Birth Place in Welfare Usage among Comparable Women: Evidence from the U.S.

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

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