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Trends in the Retirement Preparedness of Black and Hispanic Households in the US
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
. Hispanics also experienced a setback in mean retirement income but continued progress in replacement rates and reducing poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337766
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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
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The Earnings of Linguistic Minorities : French in Canada and Spanish in the United States
Bloom, David E. - 1991
This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed over time, especially in Quebec. This decline appears...
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Racial Discrimination and Housing Outcomes in the United States Rental Market
Christensen, Peter; Sarmiento-Barbieri, Ignacio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We report evidence on discriminatory behavior from the largest correspondence study conducted to date in the rental housing market. Using more than 25,000 interactions with rental property managers across the 50 largest U.S. cities, the study reveals that African American and Hispanic/LatinX...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696425
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Minority Underrepresentation in U.S. Cities
Ricca, Federico; Trebbi, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper investigates the patterns of Minority representation and voter registration in U.S. municipal governments. For the period 1981-2020, we report substantial levels of strategic underrepresentation of African American, Asian, and Latino voters in U.S. local politics. Disproportionality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938707
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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2009
find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of … held by Hispanic poor English speakers are most important for the employment of these less-skilled Hispanics than for other … Hispanics. This evidence is consistent with labor market networks being an important influence on the employment of less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463251
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Financial Returns to Home Purchases from 2007 to 2020
Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The racial and ethnic composition of home buyers varies across geographic locations. For example, Asians and Hispanics … Asians and Hispanics and the sample average. Within geographic areas, average loan differences across racial and ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533308
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Mortality Differentials, the Racial and Ethnic Retirement Wealth Gap, and the Great Pandemic
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social … Blacks, and 13.1 percent among Hispanics. As a result, while mean augmented wealth dipped only 1.2 percent among whites, it … fell 6.7 percent among Black households and 7.3 percent among Hispanics. The effect was even stronger on median values …
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The Great Unequalizer : Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States
Alsan, Marcella; Chandra, Amitabh; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the early months of the outbreak. We discuss challenges in measuring health outcomes and health inequality, some of which are specific to COVID-19 and others that complicate attribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585442
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Heterogenous Rates of Return on Homes and Other Real Estate : Do the Rich Do Better? Do Black Households Do Worse?
Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent work on wealth inequality based on the capitalization method wherein aggregate wealth totals are distributed in proportion to various forms of income like dividends has motivated a concern about whether rates of return on assets vary across the wealth distribution. In this study, I use a...
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