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We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...
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market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …
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. Time stress will be more prevalent in households with higher incomes and whose members work longer in the market or on … higher-income households perceive more time stress for the same amount of time spent in market work and household work. The …
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To understand gender differences in the job search process, we collect rich information on job offers and acceptances … facts: (1) there is a clear gender difference in the timing of job offer acceptance, with women accepting jobs substantially … earlier than men, and (2) the gender earnings gap in accepted offers narrows in favor of women over the course of the job …
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Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers the discriminatory outcomes that are the reduced-form results of interactions between tastes and opportunity sets. None examines tastes for discrimination directly, or...
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in preferences, we find that women on average have a higher willingness to pay for jobs with greater work flexibility … fewer hours, more work-time flexibility, and higher stability than jobs offered to Economics/Business majors. These job …
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' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of …
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favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …
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