- source country characteristics and U.S. immigration policy - on the gender, age, and skills of immigrants coming to America. …

The contributors to this book present evidence on the multidimensional ties that exist between migrants in their …

The effect of discrimination on black-white racial segregation is studied using a confidential supplement of the Panel … rate faced by blacks. The fixed-effects estimates of segregation imply that home ownership is associated with a decline in … black-white segregation. This effect decreases slightly at higher income levels but increases substantially with the …

, earnings, and family well-being in rural areas. …

suggests that creating new jobs in the inner city is unlikely by itself to significantly increase the employment or earnings of … public services. A different set of policies must be used to increase the earnings of the inner city poor. These employment … poverty problem, any realistic policy to significantly reduce inner-city poverty through enhanced earnings will require tens …

workers. This intervention into the labor market has direct and indirect earnings and employment consequences for both …

magnitude and temporal pattern of displaced workers' earnings losses, we exploit an unusual administrative data set that … includes both employees' quarterly earnings histories and information about their firms. We find that when high-tenure workers … similar firms. This evidence suggests that displaced workers' earnings losses result largely from the loss of some …