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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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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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Induced Innovation and Social Inequality : Evidence from Infant Medical Care
Cutler, David M. - 2009
We develop a model of induced innovation where research effort is a function of the death rate, and thus the potential to reduce deaths in the population. We also consider potential social consequences that arise from this form of induced innovation based on differences in disease prevalence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463334
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When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States
Cutler, David M. - 2007
Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a consensus view of the role of ghettos; some studies suggest that residence in an enclave is beneficial, some reach the opposite conclusion, and still others imply that any relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465572
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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