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Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...
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in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
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In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...
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a telephone survey. We find that an incentive improves response rates primarily amongst those individuals with the … longest history of income support receipt. Importantly, these individuals are least likely to respond to the survey in the …
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, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ?discrimination?, whether …
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characteristics of local markets and the propensity for consumers to be subjected to racial discrimination in their everyday … commercial transactions. Overall, one in ten soldiers report that they or their families have experienced racial discrimination … in finding non-government housing or in patronizing businesses in their local communities. Discrimination is related to a …
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, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about “discrimination”, whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700968
, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyse close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ‘discrimination’, whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661487
dramatically. The results indicate that changes in immigration policy may have led to increased human capital endowments that in …
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SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that the median wealth level of U.S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples, while the median wealth level of U.S.-born singles is three times that of foreign-born singles. Further, there...
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