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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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records database with expanded race and ethnicity measures to describe disparities and evaluate the impact of immigration …
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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 …
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The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...
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. We also find differences in the effects of occupation by gender, race, and age …
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gender differentials in health. About 25-46% of the differentials in non-work physical activity can be attributed to …This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical … activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and …
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We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender and evaluate the extent to which …
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capacity by race/ethnicity and gender are small, suggesting health is not a major driver of observed earnings disparities … abilities interact with occupational demands to shape work capacity. Using new data, we quantify individuals' functional … decline only slightly with age, indicating that many Americans maintain work capacity into their late 60s. Gaps in work …
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We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States using variation from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Our empirical approach compares trends in birth outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across...
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