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Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending
Dobbie, Will - 2018
This paper tests for bias in consumer lending decisions using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United Kingdom. We motivate our analysis using a simple model of bias in lending, which predicts that profits should be identical for loan applicants from different groups at the...
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015
composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the … population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical propositions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012386
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Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services : Evidence from U.K. Firms
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2015
This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service-producing firms in the U.K. Immigrants may substitute for imported intermediate inputs (offshore production) and they may impact the productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first...
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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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Comparing Real Wages
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2012
A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living standards of workers, and also of the productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual...
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Sex Discrimination in Restaurant Hiring : An Audit Study
Neumark, David; Bank, Roy J.; Van Nort, Kyle D. - 2021
This paper reports on a small-scale audit study that investigates sex discrimination in restaurant hiring. Comparably matched pairs of men and women applied for jobs as waiters and waitresses at 65 restaurants in Philadelphia. The 130 applications led to 54 interviews and 39 job offers. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237261
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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees : Evidence from Romania and Implications
Ambrosini, William - 2011
migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skills …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases …
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Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? a Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011
Thousands of resumes were sent in response to online job postings across multiple occupations in Toronto to investigate why Canadian immigrants, allowed in based on skill, struggle in the labor market. Resumes were constructed to plausibly represent recent immigrants under the point system from...
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Workplace Concentration of Immigrants
Andersson, Fredrik - 2010
To what extent do immigrants and the native-born work in separate workplaces? Do worker and firm characteristics explain the degree of workplace concentration? We explore these questions using a matched employer-employee database that extensively covers employers in selected MSAs. We find that...
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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010
Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation--what immigrants do with their...
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