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The low number of college graduates with science degrees - particularly among under-represented minorities - is of …
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We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each transaction can be carried out cooperatively or through a market mechanism, with cooperative transactions...
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The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years being away from the host country using count data models....
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technologically inferior. The model is consistent with evidence from Finland in 1919 and France in 1863, showing that the choice of …
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deterioration of underwriting practices and a boom in mortgage lending did not benefit minorities and immigrant homeownership in the …
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Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns …
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Using a difference-in-differences framework, this paper estimates the impact that Britain's July 2005 bombings had on the labor market outcomes of UK residents who are either Muslim by religious affiliation or whose nativity profiles are similar to the terrorists. We find a 10 percentage point...
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France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate …
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This paper studies the evolution of the residential segregation of immigrants between and within urban areas in France …
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-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …
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