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Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Button, Patrick - 2019
We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic 13,516 resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479798
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Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"
Cai, Hongbin - 2007
Using a unique firm-level dataset from China's "Silicon Valley," we investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs) affect local entrepreneurship and R&D activities upon entry. We find that R&D activities of MNEs in an industry stimulate entry of domestic firms into the same industry and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465021
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The Social and Economic Impact of Native American Casinos
Evans, William N. - 2002
In the late 1980s, a series of legal rulings favorable to tribes and the subsequent passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 legalized gaming operations on reservations in many states. Today, there are over 310 gaming operations run by more than 200 of the nations' 556...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469512
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Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways : Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico
Lybbert, Travis J. - 2016
Work in positive psychology decomposes hope into aspirations, agency, and pathways. Operating in the context of an economic model developed with this framework, we review the literature on hope from philosophy, theology, psychology, and its relationship to emerging work on aspirations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456019
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Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations
Feir, Donna; Foley, Kelly; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the impact of active labour market programs for institutionally distinct Indigenous populations in Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS). Within Indigenous population groups, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334377
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Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development : Evidence from Historical Treaties
Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with the British Crown and other European powers. These treaties regularly formed the colonial legal basis for access to Indigenous lands. However, treaties were not negotiated...
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The Socioeconomic Outcomes of Native Groups in Argentina
Dal Bó, Pedro; López, Carolina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This study uses individual-level census data from Argentina to examine the socioeconomic disparities between Native and non-Native people. Native people fare worse across a variety of indicators, including housing, education, employment, and health. On average, the observed disparities amount to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635667
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Does management matter? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011
"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394862
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Personnel Management and School Productivity : Evidence from India
Lemos, Renata; Muralidharan, Karthik; Scur, Daniela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First …, management quality in public schools is low, and ~2σ below high-income countries with comparable data. Second, private schools … have higher management quality, driven by much stronger people management. Third, people management quality is correlated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482554
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Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461999