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Skin Tone's decreasing importance on employment : evidence from a longitudinal dataset, 1985-2000
Akee, Randall; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010
We investigate the effect of skin tone on employment probabilities in a longitudinal data set. Using an objective … tone on employment has diminished. These results hold both across the white and African-American samples as well as within … attributed to African-American women; there are no changes in the employment probabilities for African-American men in the 15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806452
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Constitutions and economic development: evidence from the American Indian Nations
Akee, Randall; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
parliamentary systems, such as larger public employment, and more equitable income distribution. -- economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575381
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Transnational trafficking, law enforcement and victim protection : a middleman trafficker's perspective
Akee, Randall; Bedi, Arjun Singh; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, … - 2011
and foreign crackdowns on illicit employment mutually reinforce or counteract one another in efforts to stem the tide of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523461
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Parents' incomes and children's outcomes : a quasi-experiment
Akee, Randall; Copeland, William; Keeler, Gordon; … - 2008
Identifying the effect of parental incomes on child outcomes is difficult due to the correlation of unobserved ability, education levels and income. Previous research has relied on the use of instrumental variables to identify the effect of a change in household income on the young adult...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719631