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disadvantaged minority populations. In response to the employment quotas, individuals belonging to the Scheduled Caste group are …
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leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students …
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Using data from the 2009 American Housing Survey and Hazard Model, this paper provides empirical evidence that the …
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We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have … cigarette taxes have 'lost their bite', we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …
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election date is closer to Ramadan. We additionally show that the change in minority salience also increases the likelihood of …
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In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …
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This paper attempts to establish empirically whether natives' job satisfaction is adversely affected by having minority … satisfaction. Measuring minority co-worker status at the workplace- and occupation-level and employing alternative econometric … estimators; the paper finds that on average natives' experience a reduction in job satisfaction due to having minority co …
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of immigration and ethnicity. This suggests that it is not the minority attribute that impacts voting. Rather it is age … goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, minority and majority citizens in Canada …. We use the 2002 wave of the Equality Security Community Survey to explore the relationship between personal …
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We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...
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This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their … indigenous groups, retaining the minority language along with Spanish increases employment opportunities. Furthermore, we show … children, controlling for other factors. Overall, this study shows that the continuity of minority languages across generations …
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