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minority. It also expands income inequality within the minority community. This incentivizes decentralized attempts to … expropriate producers which, through cumulative causation, both immiserize and criminalize the minority. An underclass thus … results, with disproportionate minority presence. …
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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the relative size of a minority in a given region. In particular, I argue that inter-ethnic social distance disadvantages … minority labor to sell at a relatively lower wage in a region with higher percentage of minority people. The conditions under … smaller ethnic groups in human capital acquisition and that these efficiency differentials systematically expose minority and …
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the relative size of a minority in a given region. In particular, I argue that inter-ethnic social distance disadvantages … minority labor to sell at a relatively lower wage in a region with higher percentage of minority people. The conditions under … smaller ethnic groups in human capital acquisition and that these efficiency differentials systematically expose minority and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822101
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
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) affects socio-economic outcomes. In the context of minority-majority relations, social distances and segregation determine the …. Furthermore, I establish that there is a threshold level of ICT below which all minority individuals prefer segregated … neighborhoods and above which some minority individuals choose to integrate, thereby reaping the efficiency benefits of social …
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While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies between 1998 and 2004. We test four hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake...
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Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
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Despite evidence that skilled labor is increasingly concentrated in cities, whether regional wage inequality is predominantly due to differences in skill levels or returns is unknown. We compare Appalachia, with its wide mix of urban and rural areas, to other parts of the U.S., and find that...
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