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Racial Differences in Labor Market Transitions and the Great Recession
Couch, Kenneth A. - 2016
Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics, African-Americans and whites. Transition probabilities are contrasted prior to the Great Recession and afterwards. Estimates indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as...
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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …
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Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2012
study whether changes in housing prices affect self-employment entry …
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by conducting the largest-ever field experiment...
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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron - 2014
-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 business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with … the black-white gap falling three percentage points. The evidence that the racial gap in employment also fell is less …
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Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2021
Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian...
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