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Minority Groups and Success in Election Primaries
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2018
In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in … woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral success, candidates who belong to two minority groups have an advantage … in the race. In some cases of candidates belonging to two minority groups, their chances of success are not only higher …
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The Forest Behind the Tree: Heterogeneity in How US Governor's Party Affects Black Workers
Tchuente, Guy; Kakeu, Johnson; Francois, John Nana - 2021
Income inequality is a distributional phenomenon. This paper examines the impact of U.S governor's party allegiance (Republican vs Democrat) on ethnic wage gap. A descriptive analysis of the distribution of yearly earnings of Whites and Blacks reveals a divergence in their respective shapes over...
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An exploratory study of populism: the municipality-level predictors of electoral outcomes in Italy
Levi, Eugenio; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019
We present an exploratory machine learning analysis of populist votes at municipality level in the 2018 Italian general elections, in which populist parties gained almost 50% of the votes. Starting from a comprehensive set of local characteristics, we use an algorithm based on BIC to obtain a...
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Immigrant Fertility in the Midst of Intensified Enforcement
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroy, Esther - 2017
This paper exploits the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of local and state immigration enforcement measures to identify their impact on undocumented immigrants’ fertility. Using data from the 2005 through 2014 American Community Survey, we find that a one standard...
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Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion
Baert, Stijn - 2017
We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labour market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which...
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The Economic Impact of East-West Migration on the European Union
Kahanec, Martin; Pytliková, Mariola - 2017
-to-labor ratio. These results mark an economic success of the EU enlargements and EU’s free movement of workers. …
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Self-Employment Differentials among Foreign-Born STEM and Non-STEM Workers
Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017
This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...
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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents: Evidence from U.S. counties
Kuroki, Masanori - 2017
This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...
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Integration of humanitarian migrants into the host country labour market
Delaporte, Isaure; Piracha, Matloob - 2017
The objective of this paper is to identify the factors that influence the labour market integration of new humanitarian migrants in the host country. A number of employment outcomes are examined including access to employment, access to stable employment, the wage/earnings level and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011667927
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Beyond the Average: Ethnic Capital Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education
Chakrabortya, Tanika; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, … - 2019
Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants’ location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...
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