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Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men : 1910-1990
Fairlie, Robert W. - 1999
We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to declining rates within industries, but was...
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Regulation and Distrust
Aghion, Philippe - 2009
In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We … model is that individuals in low trust countries want more government intervention even though the government is corrupt. We … government's role, as well as on changes in beliefs and in trust during the transition from socialism …
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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
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Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs?
Gottlieb, Joshua D. - 2016
Do potential entrepreneurs remain in wage employment because of concerns that they will face worse job opportunities should their entrepreneurial ventures fail? Using a Canadian reform that extended job-protected leave to one year for women giving birth after a cutoff date, we study whether the...
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How Much is Social Capital Worth?
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
This paper uses data from global and Canadian surveys data to estimate the powerful linkages between social connections, their related social identities, and subjective well-being. Our explanatory variables include several measures of the extent and frequency of use of social networks, combined...
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Trust and Well-being
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
differences in trust levels among individuals. New experimental data from Canada show that wallets are far more likely to be …
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Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches : Theory and Evidence
Knowles, John - 1999
African- American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police behavior reflects a...
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Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990
Collins, William J. - 1999
also use the IPUMS to study trends in race differences in the incidence of mortgages, and in the value of owner …
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Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation
Bayard, Kimberly - 1999
-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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Splitting Blacks? : Affirmative Action and Earnings Inequality within and Across Races
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984
Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...
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