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Struggling to Understand the Stock Market
Hall, Robert E. - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 2, pp. 1-11
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Mexican Immigrant Employment Outcomes over the Business Cycle
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 316-20
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Does the US Labor Market Reward International Experience?
Pozo, Susan - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 250-54
A typical strategy for measuring the returns to international experience—comparing the earnings of returning migrants … to comparable non-migrants—has been criticized for not adequately accounting for self-selection. I suggest an alternative …
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Fertility Transitions along the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Aaronson, Daniel; Lange, Fabian; Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 11, pp. 3701-24
By allowing for an extensive margin in the standard quantity-quality model, we generate new insights into fertility transitions. We test the model on Southern black women aected by a large-scale school construction program. Consistent with our model, women facing improved schooling opportunities...
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The Myth of Immigrant Women as Secondary Workers: Evidence from Canada
Al?cia Adser?; Ferrer, Ana M. - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 360-64
We use the confidential files of the Canadian Census 1991–2006, combined with information from O*NET on the skill requirements of jobs, to show that the labor market patterns of female immigrants do not fit the profile of secondary workers, but rather conform to the recent experience of...
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Black-White Achievement Differences and Governmental Interventions
Hanushek, Eric A. - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 2, pp. 24-28
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Diversity in the Workplace
Morgan, John; Várdy, Felix - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 1, pp. 472-85
We study minority representation in the workplace when employers engage in optimal sequential search and minorities convey noisier signals of ability than mainstream job candidates. The greater signal noise makes it harder for minorities to change employers' prior beliefs. When employers are...
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New Evidence on the Returns to Job Skills
Abraham, Katharine G.; Spletzer, James R. - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 52-57
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Why Do Programmers Earn More in Houston than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomized Processing of US Visas
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
Why do workers earn so much more in the United States than in India? This study compares the earnings of workers in the two countries in a unique setting. The product is perfectly tradable (software), technology differences are nil (they are members of the same work team), and the workers are...
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Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia
Hornung, Erik - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 1, pp. 84-122
This paper analyzes long-term effects of skilled-worker immigration on productivity for the Huguenot migration to … losses due to plagues during the Thirty Years' War. We combine Huguenot immigration lists from 1700 with Prussian firm …-level data on the value of inputs and outputs in 1802 in a unique database to analyze the effects of skilled immigration to …
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