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the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
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the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833112
instruction to minority students in STEM fields. We explore minority student-TA interactions in an important course in the … with required attendance provides frequent interactions with the TA. We find evidence that underrepresented minority … students are less likely to drop courses and are more likely to pass courses when assigned to minority TAs, but we do not find …
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Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed ….S. to examine the relationship between black self-employment and immigration in both 1980 and 1990. To control for permanent …
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. However, the impact of immigration on natives in self-employment has not been examined, despite the over-representation of … of plausible parameter values, the model predicts small negative effects of immigration on native self-employment rates … and earnings. Using 1980 and 1990 Census microdata, we then examine the relationship between changes in immigration and …
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the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
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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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In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority …
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underrepresented minority students falls by 20-50 percent when taught by an underrepresented minority instructor. We also find these …
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In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064362