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Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market : Patterns Over Time and Across Generations
Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This article reviews evidence on the labor market performance of Hispanics in the United States, with a particular … used to study Hispanics, we document how Hispanics currently compare with other Americans in terms of education, earnings …-born Hispanics from most national origin groups possess sizeable deficits in earnings, which in large part reflect corresponding …
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Slowing Women's Labor Force Participation : The Role of Income Inequality
Albanesi, Stefania; Prados, María José - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable economic developments of the twentieth century. The growth in these indicators was particularly pronounced in the 1970s and 1980s, but it stalled since the early 1990s, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814450
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Shifts in U.S. Relative Wages : The Role of Trade, Technology and Factor Endowments
Baldwin, Robert E. - 1997
This paper investigates three hypotheses to account for the observed shifts in U.S. relative wages of less educated compared to more educated workers between 1967 and 1992: increased import competition, changes in the relative supplies of labor of different education levels and changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472890
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The Race between Education and Technology : The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007
U.S. educational and occupational wage differentials were exceptionally high at the dawn of the twentieth century and then decreased in several stages over the next eight decades. But starting in the early 1980s the labor market premium to skill rose sharply and by 2005 the college wage premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465672
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Minority Underrepresentation in U.S. Cities
Ricca, Federico; Trebbi, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper investigates the patterns of Minority representation and voter registration in U.S. municipal governments. For the period 1981-2020, we report substantial levels of strategic underrepresentation of African American, Asian, and Latino voters in U.S. local politics. Disproportionality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938707
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What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...
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Racial Discrimination and Housing Outcomes in the United States Rental Market
Christensen, Peter; Sarmiento-Barbieri, Ignacio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We report evidence on discriminatory behavior from the largest correspondence study conducted to date in the rental housing market. Using more than 25,000 interactions with rental property managers across the 50 largest U.S. cities, the study reveals that African American and Hispanic/LatinX...
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Mortality Differentials, the Racial and Ethnic Retirement Wealth Gap, and the Great Pandemic
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social … Blacks, and 13.1 percent among Hispanics. As a result, while mean augmented wealth dipped only 1.2 percent among whites, it … fell 6.7 percent among Black households and 7.3 percent among Hispanics. The effect was even stronger on median values …
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Legal Activism, State Policy, and Racial Inequality in Teacher Salaries and Educational Attainment in the Mid-Century American South
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In the late 1930s, the NAACP launched a campaign to equalize Black and white teacher salaries in the de jure segregated schools of the American South. Using newly collected county panel data spanning three decades, this paper first documents heterogeneous within-state impacts of the campaign on...
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The Earnings of Linguistic Minorities : French in Canada and Spanish in the United States
Bloom, David E. - 1991
This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed over time, especially in Quebec. This decline appears...
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