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different?’ and ‘is their behaviour changing over time?’ The indicators we look at are the gender gap in education, age at …
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This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …
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We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration …, presenting new evidence from England and Wales in the 2000s. For studying immigration impacts, this period is of considerable … immigration can be identified. When we are able to implement a credible research design with statistical power, we find no …
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Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...
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The sizable gender gap in college enrolment, especially among African Americans, constitutes a puzzling empirical … gender gap in educational attainment across and within races. …
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Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory, ethnicity might affect positively innovation...
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Gender inequality is an acute and persistent problem, especially in developing countries. This paper argues that gender … discrimination is an inefficient practice. We model gender discrimination as the complete exclusion of females from the labor market …
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Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …-educated immigrants. We first show that larger immigration inflows into locations are accompanied by larger outflows of negatively … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …
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addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using … wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives’ labour …
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This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the probability of being in social housing in the UK. In recent …
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