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Zorlu, Aslan - 2011

This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves...

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Who will be idol? The importance of social networks for winning on reality shows

Heizler, Odelia; Kimhi, Ayal - 2010

This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition...

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The Determination of a Migration Wave Using Ethnicity and Community Ties

Locher, Lilo - 2001

If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration, they adopt some of the new country?s habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when they have been restricted to live in the foreign...

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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000

Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...

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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? : The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2004

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals." Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...

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An anatomy of racial and ethnic trends in male earnings

Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012

Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...

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Multi-Dimensional Identities of the Hispanic Population in the United States

Antman, Francisca M. - 2021

This essay discusses the multi-dimensional identities of the Hispanic population in the United States as represented in current surveys. It reviews some of the critical barriers in data collection methods that limit research studies on this population. Solutions are suggested that would improve...

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American Indian Casinos and Native American Self-Identification

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2023

social factors underlying the individual choice of racial identity. …

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Incentives to identify: Racial identity in the age of affirmative action

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2014

broader trends in racial disparities, and the emerging literature on the construction of race and individual identity. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481646

Incentives to Identify: A Comment

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - 2019

Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main … contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. A coding error was recently … identity responds to state affirmative action policy, albeit with a different conclusion for multiracial blacks, and are now …

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