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Income and views on minimum living standards
Johnston, David; Menon, Nidhiya - 2021
This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …
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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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U.S. immigration policy and immigrant fertility
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2020
Using the 2005-2014 waves of the American Community Survey - a period characterized by the rapid expansion of interior immigration enforcement initiatives across the United States, we evaluate the impact of a tougher policy environment on undocumented immigrants' fertility. We find that a one...
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Secure communities as immigration enforcement : how secure is the child care market?
Ali, Umair; Brown, Jessica H.; Herbst, Chris M. - 2022
Immigrants comprise nearly 20% of the child care workforce in the U.S. This paper studies the impact of a major immigration enforcement policy, Secure Communities (SC), on the structure and functioning of the child care market. Relying on the staggered introduction of SC across counties between...
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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011
the three components mean child income, demographic circumstances and the distribution of child income. Child poverty is … of child income as well as in the demographic composition. -- child poverty ; economic growth ; Bangladesh ; China …
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Age at migration and social integration
Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? : an illustration with German data
Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014
We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …
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Identity, perceptions and institutions : caste differences in earnings from self-employment in India
Goel, Deepti; Deshpande, Ashwini - 2016
Using data from two rounds of the Employment-Unemployment Survey of the National Sample Survey for 2004-5 and 2009-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste identity in India, and perceptions of self-worth as measured by the amounts that individuals consider...
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The impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2023
Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020...
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Immigrant adjustment in Israel : literacy and fluency in Hebrew and earnings
Chiswick, Barry R.; Repetto, Gastón - 2000
This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking skills and Hebrew literacy are shown to increase with...
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