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Gender and ethnicity : married immigrants in Britain
Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - 2005
In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign-born females who belong to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign-born white females and their husbands. We compare...
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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany
Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...
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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence
Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts? the number of individuals of the same ethnicity?and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic group....
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The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on the Take-up of Disability Benefits by Race and Ethnicity
Staiger, Becky; Helfer, Madeline S.; Van Parys, Jessica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Public disability programs provide financial support to 12 million working-age individuals per year, though not all eligible individuals take up these programs. Mixed evidence exists regarding the impact of Medicaid eligibility expansion on program take-up, and even less is known about the...
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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
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Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the U.S
Ferrara, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter it is not publicly available - in particular, data...
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Do Minorities Misrepresent Their Ethnicity to Avoid Discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz - 2019
Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...
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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants : Evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants' ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of … ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … principal component analysis, this paper proposes two richer measures of ethnic identity than the ones used in the literature …
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Mortality Differentials, the Racial and Ethnic Retirement Wealth Gap, and the Great Pandemic
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that the Black/white gap in standard net worth widened from 1989 to 2019 but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social Security and defined benefit pension wealth (both the...
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