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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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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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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2009

We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...

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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007

We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...

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Ethnicity, Language, and Workplace Segregation : Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2002

. In this paper we examine the role of segregation by Hispanic ethnicity and language proficiency, contributing new … the importance of segregation by language and ethnicity in the workplace. Our empirical results reveal considerable … segregation by Hispanic ethnicity and by English language proficiency. We find that Hispanic workers, but not white workers …

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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...

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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...

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