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Do Field Experiments on Labor and Housing Markets Overstate Discrimination? A Re-examination of the Evidence
Neumark, David - 2016
There have been over 80 field experiments on traditional dimensions of discrimination in labor and housing markets … since 2000, in 23 countries. These studies nearly always find evidence of discrimination against minorities. However, the … estimates of discrimination in these studies can be biased if there is differential variation in the unobservable determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456397
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Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity : The Migration Connection
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466114
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Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap
Blau, Francine D. - 2001
This paper tests the hypotheses that overall wage compression and low female supply relative to demand reduce a country's gender pay gap. Using micro-data for 22 countries over the 1985-94 period, we find that more compressed male wage structures and lower female net supply are both associated...
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456971
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Return Migration and Human Capital Flows
Amanzadeh, Naser; Kermani, Amir; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We bring to bear a novel dataset covering the employment history of about 450 million individuals from 180 countries to study return migration and the impact of skilled international migration on human capital stocks across countries. Return migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled...
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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Figlio, David - 2016
secure better educational opportunities for their children. A larger fraction of immigrants speaking the same language in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456138
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
Alesina, Alberto - 2013
's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants … income/productivity levels in the immigrants' home countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a … across various OLS and 2SLS specifications and suggestive of skill complementarities between native workers and immigrants …
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388880
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528414
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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? : some empirical evidence
Milanovic, Branko - 2005
"The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522629