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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020

the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …

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Racial differences in labor market transitions and the Great Recession

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 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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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority …

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The political economics of the Arab Spring

Hodler, Roland - 2012

the minority group often rely on other members of their group to repress protests and to fight the majority group if …

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Ethnofederalism and ethnic voting

Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...

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Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa

Hodler, Roland; Srisuma, Sorawoot; Vesperoni, Alberto; … - 2018

We define and axiomatically characterize an index of ethnic stratification that measures the extent to which the hierarchy in socio-economic positions across the individuals of a society follows ethnolinguistic lines. This index generalizes the idea of between-group inequality to situations...

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Mining for peace

Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023

The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...

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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity

Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023

. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the … clustering strengthens immigrants' retention of an affiliation with their origin (minority identity), it weakens identification … of co-ethnic concentration for the minority identity and at very low levels of local concentration for the majority …

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Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants

Constant, Amelie; Milewski, Nadja - 2020

European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …

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