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This study investigates the access to and usage of financial services in South Africa. Financial services are … the interactions between usage of different types of financial services, we use multivariate simultaneous probit … specification to examine the effect of financial perception. Our results suggests that after controlling for endogeneity of choices …
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Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...
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"Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses … likely to hire employees than white-owned businesses in the United States. Asian firms also have mean annual sales that are …-linear decomposition technique, we explore the role that class resources, such as financial capital and human capital, play in contributing …
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In contrast to their relative standing in today's labor market, in 1960 U.S.-born men in all Asian groups earned … plausibly account for it, such as Asian/white differences in schooling, labor force participation, entrepreneurial and … effects on the 1960 wage gap and its subsequent reduction. Our findings suggest that anti-Asian labor market discrimination …
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-generation populations of key Hispanic and Asian immigrant groups. In addition, our results suggest that ethnic attrition generates … Asian counterparts. Finally, although changes to the CPS Hispanic origin and race questions adopted in 2003 have …
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"This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … being unemployed for Asian and non-Asian migrants controlling for various characteristics including age, education, and … significant "unexplained differences" for males that may be ascribed to "discrimination" against Asian migrants. However, the …
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public officials repeatedly referred to the virus as the "Chinese virus." We document that Asian entrepreneurship has been … disproportionally hurt after January 2020, particularly among Asian immigrants, declining by 17 percent when compared to non …-Hispanic whites. Examining the dynamics of transitions into and out of self-employment, we find a substantial increase in Asian …
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The median income of Asian households is the highest of all racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. In a laboratory experiment …
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that there is a substantial penalty against Asian Americans in admissions … with limited scope for omitted variables to overturn the result. This is because (i) Asian Americans are substantially … predicts admissions extremely well. Our preferred model shows that Asian Americans would be admitted at a rate 19% higher …
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