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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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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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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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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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