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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458154
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460149
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460436
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461474
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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