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size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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In this study we use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine whether visible minority Canadian … firms versus between firms. Our results suggest that both male and female visible minority Canadian-borns experience … evidence that these differences could be driven by differences in hierarchical level, career path, or immigration background …
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find that when no harm is done, there is no evidence of discrimination against the ethnic minority. In contrast, when a … innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how … ethnic identity of the scapegoats and study interactions between the majority group and the Roma minority in Slovakia. We …
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immigration from different minority groups, as well as attitudes towards related concerns, like job security and benefit … considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … such attitudes. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey, which includes questions on attitudes towards …
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the candidate and in the second case, executives who support the firm's culture constitute a minority of available …
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Values Survey. In a first step, running country-by-country regressions, we report first-time evidence that no single … second step, we relate the sign of the impact of a denomination in a country to whether the denomination is a minority in … that country. We find that denominations that are a minority in a country are more likely to be associated with a higher …
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When decision-makers overemphasize salient features under limited attention, biased decisions can result in settings in which decisions should be unbiased. We exploit a sudden shock in the salience of individuals of Moroccan descent in the Netherlands to test the vulnerability of decisions of...
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findings of the study suggest, among others, that minority group status is important in characterising job separations …
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the relative size of a minority in a given region. In particular, I argue that inter-ethnic social distance disadvantages … smaller ethnic groups in human capital acquisition and that these efficiency differentials systematically expose minority and … majority individuals to different incentives as concerns their choice of skills. As a result, minority and majority individuals …
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