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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
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The narrowing of the US gender earnings gap, 1959 - 1999: a cohort-based analysis
Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - 2006
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds that there are significant differences in the degree of...
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John H. - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the United States in the 1990s. The following...
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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of several data sets (the International Social Survey...
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Family-friendly work practices in Britain: availability and perceived accessibility
Budd, John W.; Mumford, Karen - 2005
Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplace-level availability for five family-friendly work practices - parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home - and a substantially lower rate of individual-level...
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Does Telework Stress Employees Out? A Study on Working at Home and Subjective Well-Being for Wage/Salary Workers
Song, Younghwan; Gao, Jia - 2018
to working in the workplace. We further decompose homeworking into telework and bringing work home and find that the … effect of SWB varies by types of homeworking. In comparison with working in the workplace, telework increases stress in both … received. The only positive effect of homeworking we discover is that telework reduces tiredness on weekdays. As to the …
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Did COVID-19 (Permanently) Raise the Demand for "Teleworkable" Jobs?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Brunetti, I.; Corvasce, A.; … - 2024
This study leverages detailed administrative data on firms' job flows and variation across Local Labor Markets (LLMs) in the spread of COVID-19 to investigate shifts in labor demand prompted by the pandemic. To this end, we exploit the large spatial variation in the intensity of the pandemic...
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Speeding Up on the Learning Curve: The Evaluation of Telework Following a Surge in Telework Experience
Moens, Eline; Lippens, Louis; D'hert, Liam; Baert, Stijn - 2024
This letter adds to the literature on the importance of telework experience in employee evaluation by leveraging the … telework experience accumulated during the COVID-19 crisis. We conducted a follow-up survey on the evaluation of telework … evaluation as telework experience increased. Migration background, feedback on the job, and compatibility of the job with …
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