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About 5 percent of U.S. workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the …
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Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in "real wages" where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured....
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for natives. We examine effects of the policy on STEM degree completion, STEM occupational choice, and employment rates …
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Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...
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Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment …, we document that immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across areas of the USA. Our main measure is the … percentage of immigrant workers in an area who are self-employed; i.e., the self- employment rate for the foreign-born. Areas …
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and find that worse employment conditions were the driving force. The lower opportunity costs of schooling because of the …
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