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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … pictures to identify race, ethnicity, and gender. We show that one can use LinkedIn data to obtain reasonably reliable measures … of workforce demographic composition by race, ethnicity, and gender, based on validation exercises comparing estimates …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421237
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Granular Income Inequality and Mobility using IDDA : Exploring Patterns across Race and Ethnicity
Kondo, Illenin O.; Rinz, Kevin; Gubbay, Natalie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635672
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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337855
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Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race … based on his or her (i) media consumption, (ii) consumer behavior, (iii) time use, or (iv) social attitudes. Gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452950
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Overcoming Discrimination : Harassment and Discrimination Dynamics
Chen, Yi; Dearing, Adam; Waldman, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A common feature of historical episodes in which integration was successful, as well as episodes where integration was unsuccessful, is the aggravated harassment of the early pathbreakers who put themselves at risk by violating the previous segregated norm. Examples abound including Jackie...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015094907
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Tyranny of the Personal Network : The Limits of Arm's Length Fundraising in Venture Capital
Howell, Sabrina T.; Parker, Dean; Xu, Ting - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The central tension in securities regulation is between protecting investors and enabling broad capital formation. Focusing on VC fund managers, we study key tools of investor protection in private markets: enforcing relationship-based fundraising and restricting eligible investors. A new policy...
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Stress, Ethnicity, and Prosocial Behavior
Haushofer, Johannes; Lowes, Sara; Musau, Abednego; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
While observational evidence suggests that people behave more prosocially towards members of their own ethnic group, many laboratory studies fail to find this effect. One possible explanation is that coethnic preference only emerges during times of stress. To test this hypothesis, we...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512120
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544716