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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Doyle, Mary-Alice - 2020
Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers … on essentials (e.g. food, housing). We estimate income management's impact on birth outcomes by exploiting its staggered …
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The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2018
's welfare in Aboriginal communities. The policy – known as income management – quarantines 50 percent of welfare payments to be … key policy objective. We identify the causal impact of income management on attendance rates by exploiting exogenous … variation in its staggered rollout across communities. We find no evidence that income management increased attendance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919496
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Employment Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples in the United States : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Button, Patrick - 2019
We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870441
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Sometimes, Winners Lose : Economic Disparity and Indigenization in Kazakhstan
Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies – "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan – we investigate their impact on the comparative earnings of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046646
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Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups : Evidence from Māori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle - 2015
Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026849
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Financial Stress and Indigenous Australians
Breunig, Robert V. - 2017
We examine the high levels of financial stress among Indigenous populations in Australia. We estimate separate models for the determinants of financial stress for Indigenous and non-Indigenous households and show the importance of separately considering Indigenous disadvantage. We use these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940838
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Economics of Minority Groups : Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
de la Fuente Stevens, Diego; Pelkonen, Panu - 2022
This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087838
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Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
Kalb, Guyonne R.J. - 2012
Despite several policy efforts to promote economic participation by Indigenous Australians, they continue to have low participation rates compared to non-Indigenous Australians. This study decomposes the gap in labour market attachment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099764
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Constitutions and Economic Development : Evidence from the American Indian Nations
Akee, Randall - 2012
This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099810
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American Indian Casinos and Native American Self-Identification
Antman, Francisca; Duncan, Brian - 2023
This paper links Native American racial self-identification with the rise in tribal gaming across the United States. We find that state policy changes allowing tribes to open casinos are associated with an increase in the probability that individuals with American Indian ancestors will...
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