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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2003
Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … the costliness of adopting and maintaining a specific identity. These models of racial and ethnic identity recognize that … model the choice as an extensive-form game, where whites choose to accept or reject a separate mulatto identity and mixed …
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The Lost Generation? Labor Market Outcomes for Post Great Recession Entrants
Rothstein, Jesse - 2020
I study cohort patterns in the labor market outcomes of recent college graduates, examining changes surrounding the Great Recession. Recession entrants have lower wages and employment than those of earlier cohorts; more recent cohorts' employment is even lower, but the newest entrants' wages...
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Statistical Discrimination and Duration Dependence in the Job Finding Rate
Jarosch, Gregor - 2018
This paper models a frictional labor market where employers endogenously discriminate against the long term unemployed. The estimated model replicates recent experimental evidence which documents that interview invitations for observationally equivalent workers fall sharply as unemployment...
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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success
Battisti, Michele - 2016
This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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Unemployment Fluctuations, Match Quality, and the Wage Cyclicality of New Hires
Gertler, Mark - 2016
Macroeconomic models often incorporate some form of wage stickiness to help account for employment fluctuations. However, a recent literature calls in to question this approach, citing evidence of new hire wage cyclicality from panel data studies as evidence for contractual wage flexibility for...
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Should Student Employment Be Subsidized? Conditional Counterfactuals and the Outcomes of Work-Study Participation
Scott-Clayton, Judith - 2014
Student employment subsidies are one of the largest types of federal employment subsidies, and one of the oldest forms of student aid. Yet it is unclear whether they help or harm students' long term outcomes. We present a framework that decomposes overall effects into a weighted average of...
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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites
Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999
This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...
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On the Measurement of Segregation
Echenique, Federico - 2005
This paper develops a measure of segregation based on two premises: (1) a measure of segregation should disaggregate to the level of individuals, and (2) an individual is more segregated the more segregated are the agents with whom she interacts. Developing three desirable axioms that any...
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Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance
Alesina, Alberto - 2004
We survey and assess the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on both focus both cities in developed countries (the US) and villages in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political...
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Consumer Information and Price Discrimination : Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?
Morton, Fiona Scott - 2001
Mediating transactions through the Internet removes important cues that salespeople can use to assess a consumer's willingness to pay. We analyze whether dealers' difficulty in identifying consumer characteristics on the Internet and consumers' ease in finding information affects equilibrium...
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