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The Impact of Unions on the Labor Market for White and Minority Youth
Holzer, Harry J. - 1981
This paper presents estimates of the effects of unions on the wages of young black and white males who are both union and nonunion workers. It also presents estimates of union effects on employment for these groups, as well as their union membership rates. While unions have a very substantial,...
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The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave : Applying the Synthetic Control Method to the Mariel Boatlift
Peri, Giovanni - 2015
We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the labor market effects of the Mariel Boatlift, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group of cities that best matches Miami's labor market trends pre-Boatlift and providing more...
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Immigrants, Minorities, and Labor Market Competition
Borjas, George J. - 1986
This paper analyzes the extent of labor market competition among immigrants, minorities and the native population. The study reveals that immigrants tend to be substitutes with some labor market groups, and complements with others. However, all these effects of shifts in immigrant supply on the...
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Employer Neighborhoods and Racial Discrimination
Agan, Amanda Y. - 2020
Using a large field experiment, we show that racial composition of employer neighborhoods predicts employment discrimination patterns in a direction suggesting in-group bias. Our data also show racial disparities in the geographic distribution of job postings. Simulations illustrate how these...
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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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Immigration and the work force : economic consequences for the United States and source areas
Borjas, George J. (ed.); Freeman, Richard B. (contributor) - 1992
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Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the U.S
Ferrara, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2004
The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves …
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Out-group Penalties in Refugee Assistance : A Survey Experiment
Cattaneo, Cristina; Grieco, Daniela; Lacetera, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on … a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence or refugees fleeing wars in Ukraine or African countries. We also … employ a novel measure, the share donated in cash. While donations indicated less support for African and Ukrainian refugees …
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A Reconsideration of the Effects of Unionism on Relative Wages and Employment in the United States, 1920-80
Pencavel, John H. - 1984
H. Gregg Lewis' estimates of the relative wage effect of unionism between 1920 and 1958 are routinely cited though they have rarely been subject to scrutiny. This paper extends Lewis' data to 1980 and, in particular, we construct a series on union membership that links up with the data available...
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