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Using survey information about characteristics of personal contacts linked with administrative register information on … of lack of employed contacts. I investigate this hypothesis by exploiting a unique natural experiment that occurred … immigrants find jobs in part through their employed immigrant and co-ethnic contacts in the neighborhood of residence and that a …
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A central purpose of this chapter is to assess whether the available empirical evidence supports the view that current levels of housing discrimination are a significant contributor to residential segregation in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. Through the course of this chapter, the reader...
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assistence which results predominantly from personal contacts. The personal networks which developed from the environment of the …
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This paper studies how selling constraints, which refer to the inability of firms to attend to all the buyers who want to inspect their products, affect the equilibrium price and social welfare. We show that the price that maximizes social welfare is greater than the marginal cost. This is...
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assistence which results predominantly from personal contacts. The personal networks which developed from the environment of the …
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Despite the recent flood of foreclosures on residential mortgages, little is known about what happens to borrowers and their households after their mortgage has been foreclosed. We study the post-foreclosure experience of U.S. households using a unique dataset based on the credit reports of a...
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assistence which results predominantly from personal contacts. The personal networks which developed from the environment of the …
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This paper studies how selling constraints, which refer to the inability of firms to attend to all the buyers who want to inspect their products, affect the equilibrium price and social welfare. We show that the price that maximizes social welfare is greater than the marginal cost. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320135