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Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the U.S
Ferrara, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
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Forced Migration and Refugees : Policies for Successful Economic and Social Integration
Bahar, Dany; Brough, Rebecca J.; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The inflow of refugees and their subsequent integration can be an important challenge for both the refugees themselves and the host society. Policy interventions can improve the lives and economic success of refugees and of their communities. In this paper, we review the socioeconomic...
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Human Capital Growth - with Region and Gender in Perspective
Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
growth of human capital and several of its constituent factors are broken down by gender and by region, and in some cases … capital have grown over time. The purpose is to identify the sources of human capital growth by region, gender, and various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210063
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Gender Reveals in the Labor Market : Evidence on Gender Signaling and Statistical Discrimination in an Online Health Care Market
He, Haoran - 2024
different gender, race, or ethnic groups and how they evolve as buyers obtain more information about seller quality. We consider … have a choice about how strongly to signal gender. We develop a new approach to identifying statistical discrimination … using doctors' choices about signaling their gender. We find evidence of statistical discrimination against female doctors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072871
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Gender, race, pay and promotion in the British nursing profession : estimation of a generalised ordered probit model
Pudney, Stephen E.; Shields, Michael - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000972997
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Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility
Melki, Mickael - 2024
We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930, we find that higher immigration to France...
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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250135
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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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Quantifying the Uncertainty of Imputed Demographic Disparity Estimates : The Dual-Bootstrap
Lu, Benjamin; Wan, Jia; Ouyang, Derek; Goldin, Jacob; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
is to impute the missing race or ethnicity labels using proxies, then use those imputations to estimate the disparity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528352
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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a …
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