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Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity : The Migration Connection
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2014
Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2015
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … and result in occupational stratification along ethnic lines via concentrated entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014661
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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Levine, Ross - 2018
on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts—and the data confirm—that entrepreneurs are positively selected on …We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence …
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Immigration and Product Diversity
Mazzolari, Francesca - 2010
We study the effects of immigration on the diversity of consumption choices. Data from California in the 1990s indicate that immigration is associated with fewer stand-alone retail stores, and a greater number of large and in particular big-box retailers - evidence that likely contradicts a...
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Does Culture Matter?
Fernández, Raquel - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The epidemiological approach studies the variation in outcomes across different immigrant groups residing in the same country. Immigrants presumably differ in their cultures but share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139141
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Migrants, Ancestors, and Investments
Burchardi, Konrad - 2016
migrants across US counties. We find that a doubling of the number of residents with ancestry from a given foreign country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001782
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Social Networks and Access to Health Care Among Mexican-Americans
Gresenz, Carole R. - 2007
This research explores social networks and their relationship to access to health care among adult Mexican-Americans. We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) linked to data from the 2000 U.S. Census and other data sources. We analyze multiple measures of access to health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775882
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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...
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Consequences of Imbalanced Sex Ratios : Evidence from America'S Second Generation
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2021
A combination of changing migration patterns and US immigration restrictions acted to shift the male-female balance in many ethnic groups in the early 20th Century. I use this variation to study the consequences of changing sex ratios for the children of immigrants. Immigrant sex ratios affected...
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The Wages and Language Skills of U.S. Immigrants
Carliner, Geoffrey - 2021
This paper finds that immigrants on average earned about $0.50/hour less than native-born Americans in 1989. Immigrants from some regions earned much more than natives, while others, especially from Mexico, earned much less. This paper also finds that when immigrants first arrive in the U.S....
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