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. Union programs deliver more training than nonunion programs, regardless of gender and race/ethnicity. Prior education level …This paper uses micro data from Oregon to measure the gender and minority training gaps in apprenticeship training. Its …
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, whereas the former ignore race. This paper traces this disjuncture to two sources. What is missing in the social science view … discrimination in credit markets have, ironically, had the effect of making race analytically invisible. Because of these explanatory … subprime lending. Consequences for gender inequality in credit markets are also briefly discussed. …
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This paper investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment from labor market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find substantial effects both of the state of the national labor market and of local unemployment rates. Comparing refugees entering Sweden in a severe and...
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We explore the relation between variability in the rate of return to human capital and investment in education in the context of migration. Specifically, we show that if migration is a possibility, such variability in the rate of return to human capital can induce residents of developing...
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find that immigration restrictions set by receiving countries have the paradoxical effect of creating migration flows which …
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first years in Sweden. The results also indicate gender differences. The level of education only matters for men while …
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Migration across well-developed countries has been overlooked in the immigration literature. The present study is … Registers. We analyze eight groups of German immigrants - by country of destination (the US/ Sweden), gender, and skill level …
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STEM decreases as gender equality in society increases. Analyzing administrative longitudinal data on students in Hebrew …- and Arabic-language schools in Israel, all operating within the same centralized education system, we find that the gender … achievement-gap favoring girls in Arabic schools, the ethnic group characterized by less gender equality, is greater than the …
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement …, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We …
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