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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2010

find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of … held by Hispanic poor English speakers are most important for the employment of these less-skilled Hispanics than for other … Hispanics. This evidence is consistent with labor market networks being an important influence on the employment of less …

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The Earnings of Linguistic Minorities : French in Canada and Spanish in the United States

Bloom, David E.; Grenier, Gilles - 2021

demand for French-speaking workers within Quebec during the 1970s and 1980s. By 1986, nearly all of the remaining earnings …

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Financial Literacy and High-Cost Borrowing in the United States

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2013

In this paper, we examine high-cost methods of borrowing in the United States, such as payday loans, pawn shops, auto title loans, refund anticipation loans, and rent-to-own shops, and offer a portrait of borrowers who use these methods. Considering a representative sample of more than 26,000...

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Public or Private Production of Food Safety : What Do U.S. Consumers Want?

Smith, V. Kerry - 2010

This paper reports estimates of consumers' preferences for plans to improve food safety. The plans are distinguished based on whether they address the ex ante risk of food borne illness or the ex post effects of the illness. They are also distinguished based on whether they focus on a public...

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Scarring Body and Mind : The Long-Term Belief-Scarring Effects of Covid-19

Kozlowski, Julian - 2020

The largest economic cost of the COVID-19 pandemic could arise from changes in behavior long after the immediate health crisis is resolved. A potential source of such a long-lived change is scarring of beliefs, a persistent change in the perceived probability of an extreme, negative shock in the...

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Inflation with Covid Consumption Baskets

Cavallo, Alberto - 2020

The Covid-19 Pandemic has led to changes in consumer expenditure patterns that can introduce significant bias in the measurement of inflation. I use data collected from credit and debit transactions in the US to update the official basket weights and estimate the impact on the Consumer Price...

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U.S. V. Microsoft : Did Consumers Win?

Evans, David A.; Evans, David S.; Nichols, Albert L.; … - 2022

U.S. v. Microsoft and the related state suit filed in 1998 appear finally to have concluded. In a unanimous en banc decision issued in late June 2004, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to the remedies approved by the District Court in November 2002. The wave of follow-on...

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Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation : a Comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890

Haines, Michael R. - 2022

This paper utilizes household-level budget data from the 1889/90 United States Commissioner of Labor survey to estimate the full Almost Ideal Demand System with demographic and other covariates. Price data were obtained from the Aldrich Report of 1892. The purpose is to make better use of the...

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House Prices and Birth Rates : The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

Dettling, Lisa J. - 2011

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The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust

Bayer, Patrick J. - 2013

is important heterogeneity within minorities: black and Hispanics that live in areas with lower employment rates and that …

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