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Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men : 1910-1990

Fairlie, Robert W.; Meyer, Bruce D. - 2021

We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to declining rates within industries, but was...

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Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present

Collins, William J. - 2011

We present estimates of home ownership for African-American and white households from 1870 to 2007. The estimates pertain to a sample of households headed by adult men participating in the labor force but the substantive findings are unchanged if the analysis is extended to all households. Over...

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Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process : Theory and Evidence

Anwar, Shamena - 2012

maximum sentences and separately by race. If the coefficient estimates on the exposure time term differ by race, then there is …

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Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2013

This chapter examines the causes and consequences of black-white residential segregation in the United States. Segregation can arise through black self-segregation, collective action to exclude blacks from white neighborhoods, or individual mobility of white households. Historically, whites used...

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Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity

Wolfe, Barbara - 2013

years of schooling completed, earnings, family income, composition of friends, and probability of voting. Our results … provide evidence of a positive link between attending a college with greater diversity and higher earnings and family income …

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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007

lines but racial lines as well, by estimating the effects of job density measures that are disaggregated by race. We find …

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Productivity Measurement : Racing to Keep Up

Sichel, Daniel E. - 2019

accurate the measures of prices used to deflate nominal output so as to win (or at least not lose) the race for economic …

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Acting White or Acting Black : Mixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior

Ruebeck, Christopher S. - 2010

Although rates of interracial marriage are on the rise, we still know relatively little about the experiences of mixed-race … adolescents. In this paper, we examine the identity and behavior of mixed-race (black and white) youth. We find that mixed-race … characterized as quot;whitequot;. When we combine both types of behavior, average mixed-race behavior is a combination that is …

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Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2010

We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …

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Splitting Blacks? : Affirmative Action and Earnings Inequality within and Across Races

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2010

Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...

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