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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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Earnings among Nine Ethnic Minorities and the Han Majority in China's Cities

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Yang, Xiuna - 2016

This paper asks if economic growth and steps towards a market economy have affected earnings gaps between the Han and nine large urban ethnic minorities: Zhuang, Hui, Manchurian, Tujia, Uighur, Miao, Tibetan, Mongol and Korean. It also asks how earnings premiums and earnings penalties have...

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Chinese immigrants in the US labor market: Effects of post-tiananmen immigration policy

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - 2012

The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and ensuing government crackdown affected Chinese nationals not only at home but around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese nationals present in the U.S. It first suspended all...

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Ethnic identity and immigrants' wages in Greece

Drydakis, Nick - 2011

This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in … Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ethnic-self identification, societal … immigration and evaluate the cornerstone features of ethnic identity. …

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Gender, economic development and Islam: A perspective from France

Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012

Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of women is a sine qua non for economic progress; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower...

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Do Gays Shy Away from Competition? Do Lesbians Compete Too Much?

Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik - 2015

It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...

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Improving the Integration of Refugees: An Early Evaluation of a Swedish Reform

Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Lanninger, Alma W.; … - 2015

This paper is an early evaluation of the Swedish Establishment Reform which was enacted in 2010 with the goal of facilitating and speeding up the integration of refugees and their family into the labor market and the society. From December 1, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for...

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International Migration and the Economics of Language

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014

This paper provides a review of the research on the 'economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...

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Linguistic and Economic Adjustment among Immigrants in Israel

Chiswick, Barry R.; Rebhun, Uzi; Beider, Nadia - 2016

This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants in Israel. It uses the 2010/11 Immigrant Absorption Survey conducted by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. Unique features of the analysis include the study of...

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Reforming the Integration of Refugees: The Swedish Experience

Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Lanninger, Alma W.; … - 2016

In this paper we evaluate the Swedish Establishment Reform, carried out in 2010 with the goal of speeding up the establishment of refugees and their family. From December 1, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of newly‐arrived refugees from the municipalities to...

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