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Social Segregation and the Dynamics of Group Inequality

Bowles, Samuel; Sethi, Rajiv - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2006

We explore the dynamics of group inequality when segregation of social networks places the initially less affluent …, provided that social segregation is sufficiently great, (ii) there is threshold level of integration above which group … acquiring human capital can expand the range over which reducing segregation can be Pareto-improving. JEL Categories: D31, Z13 …

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Human capital differentials across municipalities and states in Brazil

Queiroz, Bernardo L.; Golgher, André B. - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2008

empirically wage differentials in Brazil. Last, we compute standard segregation and isolation measures to show the trends in the …

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Group Inequality

Bowles, Samuel; Loury, Glenn C.; Sethi, Rajiv - School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study - 2009

among three factors: the extent of segregation in social networks, the strength of interpersonal spillovers in human capital … accumu- lation, and the responsiveness of relative wages to the skill composition in production. Social segregation is … segregation su¢ ciently great. We also show that if an initially disadvantaged group is su¢ ciently small, integration above a …

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High Unemployment in Germany: Why do Foreigners Suffer Most?

Geis, Wido - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2010

In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment...

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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...

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Human Capital and Productivity in British Columbia

Murray, Alexander; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011

This report provides an assessment of human capital development in British Columbia. The province's performance is above average according to the majority of the indicators we analyze, relative to both the rest of Canada and other OECD countries. However, this does not mean that there is no room...

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From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Occupational Skills and the Economic Outcomes of Immigrants

Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2011

-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then test the empirical implications using the skill requirements of pre- and post-immigration … cognitive skills, but relied less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations …

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Tennessee: Recent Immigration Patterns

Livingston, Steven G. - In: Global Commerce 17 (2011) 2, pp. 1-6

While we have devoted great attention to the expanding flow of trade and investment into this state, perhaps it's time to take a look at the flow of people as well.

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Immigrant Selection Systems and Occupational Outcomes of International Medical Graduates in Canada and the United States

McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2011

We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...

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Promoting return and circular migration of the highly skilled

Hercog, Metka; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

the effects of skilled return migrants which bring about the transfer of knowledge and skills. This paper examines five …

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