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high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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differential. For instance, a large wage penalty occurs in the U.S. among female immigrants from non-English speaking countries …
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Using 1990, 2000 censuses and a 2010 survey, I examine the economic performance of ethnically Chinese immigrants from … escalating in contrast to other immigrants. I show these widening gaps are largely explained by individual's endowments, mostly …
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captures the causal link from immigrants to native labor outcomes and we show estimates obtained with 2SLS method using the … briefly review the literature on the channels and the mechanisms that allow local economies to absorb immigrants with no …
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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants … immigrants that tend to marry natives but are instead most likely a result of increasing returns to the characteristics of … immigrants married to natives. Because immigrants married to natives tend to have more schooling, part of the increasing premium …
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Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved … earnings of other immigrants. This pattern is seen in the most recent data, the American Community Survey, 2005 to 2009, which … is that the Russian Jewish immigrants from the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1881 to 1920's) also experienced high …
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This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have … immigrants have earned more than the older ones since 1980 …
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Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...
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Starting in the 1980s, the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers partly due to the … influx of Latin American immigrants in the past few decades. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less … unskilled workers in the U.S. On the other hand, some recent studies claim that low-skilled immigrants may complement relatively …
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. Discrimination exhibits little geographical dispersion, but two digit industry explains roughly half of the cross-firm variation in … quintile of racial discrimination responsible for nearly half of lost contacts to Black applicants in the experiment … findings establish that systemic illegal discrimination is concentrated among a select set of large employers, many of which …
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