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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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The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2016

Does a person's historical lineage influence his or her current economic status? Motivated by a large literature in social sciences stressing the effect of an early transition to agriculture on current economic performance at the level of countries, we examine the relative contemporary status of...

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On the Ethnic Origins of African Development Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2014

identify with their ethnic group as often as with the nation pointing to the salience of ethnicity. Second, we focus on the … the economy and the polity. Third, we elaborate on a prominent dimension of ethnicity, that of the degree of complexity of …

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Ethnic Inequality

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2012

This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality both across and within …

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Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2012

We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary economic performance, as...

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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011

We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...

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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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