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Culture and Language
Lazear, Edward P. - 1995
Common culture and common language facilitate trade between people. Minorities have incentives to become assimilated and to learn the majority language so that they have a larger pool of potential trading partners. The value of assimilation is larger to someone from a small minority than to one...
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Bend It Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
heritage the more integrated are the neighborhoods where they reside and work. Data on ethnic preferences and attitudes …
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Human Capital by Gender : a G20 and Selected Geographies Perspective
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Liu, Gang; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender … Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and … capital have grown over time in almost all countries. Attention must be paid to what has happened to the world's gender …
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Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy
Bisin, Alberto - 2019
We study the cultural integration of immigrants, estimating a structural model of marital matching along ethnic dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich administrative demographic data on the universe of marriages...
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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites
Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999
ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more … college students that account for the differential response by race and ethnicity to the new labor market for skilled labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471541
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On the Measurement of Segregation
Echenique, Federico - 2005
This paper develops a measure of segregation based on two premises: (1) a measure of segregation should disaggregate to the level of individuals, and (2) an individual is more segregated the more segregated are the agents with whom she interacts. Developing three desirable axioms that any...
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Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance
Alesina, Alberto - 2004
We survey and assess the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on both focus both cities in developed countries (the US) and villages in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political...
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The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2003
Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity produced in recognition of … race and ethnicity is potentially endogenous because racial and ethnic identities are fluid. We look at the free African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468735
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Consumer Information and Price Discrimination : Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?
Morton, Fiona Scott - 2001
Mediating transactions through the Internet removes important cues that salespeople can use to assess a consumer's willingness to pay. We analyze whether dealers' difficulty in identifying consumer characteristics on the Internet and consumers' ease in finding information affects equilibrium...
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Ethnicity and the Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency
Borjas, George J. - 1997
There exist sizeable differences in the incidence and duration of welfare spells across ethnic groups, and these differences tend to persist across generations. Using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, we find that children raised in welfare households are themselves more likely to...
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