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% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …
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for Asians. If these results hold up to further scrutiny, one interpretation is that the Civil Rights Act and accompanying …
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substantially lowered attrition rates for second- and third-generation Hispanics and Asians, ethnic attrition remains a significant … ; Asians …
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from the matched CPS also indicate that the lower rate of health insurance coverage among Asians is almost entirely … gap for African-Americans and Asians, and 16 percent of the health insurance gap for Latinos. Lower levels of education … explain roughly 15 percent of the gap for African-Americans and Latinos (Asians' higher levels of education serve to close the …
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capital. Startup capital and education alone explain from 65 percent to the entire gap in business outcomes between Asians and …
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, we examine whether Asians are more willing to compete and have greater competitive preferences than non-Asians. Both with … and without controls for performance, performance improvement, and confidence, we find that Asians have significantly … greater competitive preferences than non-Asians. …
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Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
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This study examines the interplay between job stability, wage rates, and marital instability. We use a Dynamic Selection Control model in which young men make sequential choices about work and family. Our empirical estimates derived from the model account for self-selection, simultaneity and...
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This paper critically reviews and synthesizes research on the role of religion on various aspects of the economic and demographic behavior of individuals and families in the United States, including the choice of marital partner, union formation and dissolution, fertility, female time...
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This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...
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