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Taxation and International Migration of Superstars : Evidence from the European Football Market
Kleven, Henrik - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of football players in Europe … leagues of 14 Western European countries since 1985. We identify the effects of top earnings tax rates on migration using a … players. We start by presenting reduced-form graphical evidence showing large and compelling migration responses to country …
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Testing for the Role of Prejudice in Emergency Departments Using Bounceback Rates
Anwar, Shamena - 2011
We propose and empirically implement a test for the presence of racial prejudice among emergency department (ED) physicians based on the bounceback rates of the patients who were discharged after receiving diagnostic tests during their initial ED visits. A bounceback is defined as a return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128271
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Long-Run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments
Johnson, Rucker - 2011
This paper investigates the long-run impacts of court-ordered school desegregation on an array of adult socioeconomic and health outcomes. The study analyzes the life trajectories of children born between 1945 and 1968, and followed through 2013, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131677
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David - 2010
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137303
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The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials
Anwar, Shamena - 2010
This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique data set of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138088
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The Importance of Segregation, Discrimination, Peer Dynamics, and Identity in Explaining Trends in the Racial Achievement Gap
Fryer, Roland G. - 2010
After decades of narrowing, the achievement gap between black and white school children widened in the 1990s - a period when the labor market rewards for education were increasing. This presents an important puzzle for economists. In this chapter, I investigate the extent to which economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139515
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Racial Inequality in the 21st Century : The Declining Significance of Discrimination
Fryer, Roland G. - 2010
There are large and important differences between blacks and whites in nearly every facet of life - earnings, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the significance of discrimination as an explanation for racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139516
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The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011
We examine the long-run consequences of ethnic partitioning, a neglected aspect of the Scramble for Africa, and uncover the following regularities. First, apart from the land mass and presence of water bodies, historical homelands of split and non-split groups are similar across many observable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118126
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Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market : Theory and Empirics
Lang, Kevin - 2011
We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment duration differentials when combined with either random or directed search even when strong prejudice is not widespread, but no existing model explains the unemployment rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120204
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Persecution Perpetuated : The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
Voigtländer, Nico - 2011
level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123982