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Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron - 2014

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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Catching up or lagging behind? The long-term business and innovation potential of subsidized start-ups out of unemployment

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 49 (2020) 10, pp. 1-14

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Nineteenth Century US African-American and White Female Statures : Insight from US Prison Records

Carson, Scott A. - 2010

Using a new source of 19th century state prison records, this study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable US African-American and white female statures during economic development. Black and white female statures varied regionally, and white Southeastern and black Southwestern...

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African-American and White Living Standards in the 19th Century American South : A Biological Comparison

Carson, Scott A. - 2006

By using a new source of 19th century Texas state prison records, the present study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable blacks and whites in the American South between the Civil War and Reconstruction. White stature exceeded black stature. Between 1850 and 1870, black...

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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century U.S. White Statures

Carson, Scott A. - 2009

Using a source of 19th century U.S. state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates...

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Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime : Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany

Piopiunik, Marc - 2015

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation of ethnic German immigrants by German authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that...

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Ethnic Favoritism : An Axiom of Politics?

De Luca, Giacomo - 2015

We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...

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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary

Dustmann, Christian - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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The Determinants of Islamophobia - An Empirical Analysis of the Swiss Minaret Referendum

Orlanski, Olga - 2018

We analyze the determinants of Islamophobia using the only nation-wide anti-Islam referendum ever, which was held in Switzerland in 2009 and led to the prohibition of minarets. We find economic, environmental, and cultural factors as well as the presence of Muslims to determine voting behavior....

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