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University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in Stem Fields : Evidence from California
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2013
leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students …
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Minority Representation in Local Government
Beach, Brian - 2018
Does minority representation in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for minorities? To examine this …
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Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's Reclaim Program
Mansur, Erin T. - 2019
emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889502
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The Impact of Unions on the Labor Market for White and Minority Youth
Holzer, Harry J. - 2021
This paper presents estimates of the effects of unions on the wages of young black and white males who are both union and nonunion workers. It also presents estimates of union effects on employment for these groups, as well as their union membership rates. While unions have a very substantial,...
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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps
Fryer, Roland G. - 2013
This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one%u2019s group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three...
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Cigarette Taxes and Smoking Among Sexual Minority Adults
Carpenter, Christopher S.; Sansone, Dario - 2021
We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have … cigarette taxes have ‘lost their bite’, we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324143
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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2010
We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...
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When are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States
Cutler, David M. - 2007
Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a consensus view of the role of ghettos; some studies suggest that residence in an enclave is beneficial, some reach the opposite conclusion, and still others imply that any relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776962
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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Foley, C. Fritz - 2016
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's...
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The Language Ability of U.S. Immigrants : Assimilation and Cohort Effects
Carliner, Geoffrey - 2021
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census of Population to examine the English language skills of natives and immigrants. The first main finding is that lack of fluency in spoken English is rare among native- born Americans. In 1990, 98.4 % of natives aged 18 to 64 reported to the...
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