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Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration
Collins, William J. - 2019
Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives as they gain experience is a fundamental question in the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480358
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Immigration in American Economic History
Abramitzky, Ran - 2016
The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants. Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This paper reviews the literatures on historical and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456790
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Borders, Ethnicity and Trade
Aker, Jenny C. - 2010
Do national borders and ethnicity contribute to market segmentation between and within countries? This paper uses …, and in line with important characteristics of African economies, we investigate the role of ethnicity in mitigating and … exacerbating the border effect. We find that a common ethnicity is linked to lower price dispersion across countries, yet ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462692
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The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone : Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940
Abramitzky, Ran; Conway, Jacob; Mill, Roy; Stein, Luke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
identify all 36,329 families in which enumerators assigned same-gender siblings different Black/Mulatto classifications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247937
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Who Benefited from World War II Service and the GI Bill? New Evidence on Heterogeneous Effects for US Veterans
Collins, William J.; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the impacts of WWII service and access to GI Bill benefits on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals of various ethnic and racial groups. We address selection into military service directly by linking veterans and nonveterans from 1950's census records to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056100
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Work and Play : International Evidence of Gender Equality in Employment and Sports
Klein, Michael W. - 2002
This paper addresses the question of whether societies that afford economic opportunity to women offer other opportunities as well. The analysis in this paper shows that the performance of a country's women in international athletic competition reflects the degree of their relative participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469632