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estimations that deal with the endogenous sorting of immigration by region and with the sampling error in survey based measures of …We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess … whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the …
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College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....
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We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for nonresponse, rounding, and focal point 50 percent answers. Our results indicate that for three of the four...
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evidence on the frequency of nominal wage adjustment using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for …
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behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer … data we find that a randomly selected employer is more likely to discriminate against a minority job applicant in regions …
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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This paper provides field experimental evidence on the prevalence and determinants of discrimination and in … receive different investments depending on the district they live in. The systematics of the discrimination pattern is … increases in the socio-economic status it decreases in the degree of ethnic heterogeneity. Observed discrimination is not just …
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This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
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capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration …
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