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analysis provides novel evidence for the magnitude and the origin of ethnic wage differentials by gender. In general, ethnic …
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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
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Our findings suggest the existence of a gender reservation wage gap. The presence of children, particularly pre …
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of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …
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A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences...
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that for women low-wage jobs can serve as stepping stones out of unemployment and are to be preferred to staying unemployed …
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This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent … the first to the second period but remained almost unchanged between the second and the third. The gender earnings gap … the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover, the gap is more pronounced for low …
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included information about mathematics and reading scores and student demographics such as gender, race, and SES. Teacher …
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Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
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for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender …
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