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This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...
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, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … pictures to identify race, ethnicity, and gender. We show that one can use LinkedIn data to obtain reasonably reliable measures … of workforce demographic composition by race, ethnicity, and gender, based on validation exercises comparing estimates …
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Curricula impart knowledge, instill values, and shape collective memory. Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, and home schools,...
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examine gender and racial/ethnicity differentials in promotion of economists in economics and non-economics departments …. Results are mixed. The share of Black economists remains at 3%. Huge gender penalties in promotion to both associate and full … not explained by productivity continue in economics departments. There are no gender penalties in promotion to associate …
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by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …
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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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The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
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The distribution of parental leave uptake and childcare activities continues to conform to traditional gender roles. In … 2002, with the goal of increasing gender equality, Sweden added a second "daddy month," i.e., an additional month of pay … after the reform by gender and household type (the parents' education). We find that changed incentives and, especially …
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Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....
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influence the gender composition of arrivals. We show that women - and in particular single women - were less likely to arrive …
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