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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility

Borjas, George J. - 1991

ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process. The skills of the next generation depend on parental …

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Mexican immigration to the United States

Borjas, George J. (ed.) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480762

Issues in the economics of immigration

Borjas, George J. (ed.) - 2000

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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...

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Immigrants, Minorities, and Labor Market Competition

Borjas, George J. - 1986

This paper analyzes the extent of labor market competition among immigrants, minorities and the native population. The study reveals that immigrants tend to be substitutes with some labor market groups, and complements with others. However, all these effects of shifts in immigrant supply on the...

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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 …

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To Ghetto or Not to Ghetto : Ethnicity and Residential Segregation

Borjas, George J. - 1997

This paper analyzes the link between ethnicity and the choice of residing in ethnically segregated neighborhoods. Data …

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Ethnicity and the Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency

Borjas, George J. - 1997

There exist sizeable differences in the incidence and duration of welfare spells across ethnic groups, and these differences tend to persist across generations. Using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, we find that children raised in welfare households are themselves more likely to...

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Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human Capital Externalities

Borjas, George J. - 1994

externality and ethnic neighborhoods. The evidence indicates that residential segregation and the external effect of ethnicity are … raised. Ethnicity has an external effect, even among persons who grow up in the same neighborhood, when children are exposed …

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Long-Run Convergence of Ethnic Skill Differentials

Borjas, George J. - 1994

This paper investigates if the ethnic skill differentials introduced into the United States by the inflow of very dissimilar immigrant groups during the Great Migration of 1880-1910 disappeared during the past century. An analysis of the 1910, 1940, and 1980 Censuses and the General Social...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474295