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Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2008

(positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill … simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source …-destination pair are more educated relative to non-migrants the larger is the absolute skill-related difference in earnings between the …

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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...

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The Educational Attainment of Immigrants : Trends and Implications

Betts, Julian R. - 1998

This paper uses the 1970, 1980, and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study trends in educational attainment of immigrants relative …

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An Analysis of the Earnings of Canadian Immigrants

Bloom, David E. - 1989

The estimates are used to assess (1) the usefulness of cross-sectional analyses for measuring the pace of immigrant earnings growth, (2) the labor market implications of admissions policies that place different weights on the work skills possessed by prospective entrants, and (3) the relative...

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Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1987

This paper analyzes the way in which the earnings of the immigrant population may be expected to differ from the earnings of the native population because of the endogeneity of the migration decision. The conditions that determine the nature of the self -selection are derived and depend on...

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Technological Change, Occupational Tasks and Declining Immigrant Outcomes : Implications for Earnings and Income Inequality in Canada

Warman, Casey - 2015

immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization and the …

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Venture Capital's "Me Too" Moment

Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Sweeney, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference-in-differences regressions, we find that the rate of hiring...

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Closing the Innovation Gap in Pink and Black

Cook, Lisa D.; Gerson, Janet; Kuan, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recent research shows the negative impact of discrimination not only on the targets of discrimination but also on the economy as a whole. Racial and gender inequality can limit the entire economy's productive capacity and innovation outcomes. Using new data from NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates...

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Gender Differences in Medical Evaluations : Evidence from Randomly Assigned Doctors

Cabral, Marika; Dillender, Marcus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

While a growing body of evidence documents large gender disparities in health care and related social insurance programs, little is known about what drives these disparities. We leverage administrative data and random assignment of doctors to patients inherent within the workers' compensation...

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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors

Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2009

-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U …

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