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Immigration and Product Diversity
Mazzolari, Francesca - 2010
We study the effects of immigration on the diversity of consumption choices. Data from California in the 1990s indicate … that immigration is associated with fewer stand-alone retail stores, and a greater number of large and in particular big …-box retailers - evidence that likely contradicts a diversity-enhancing effect of immigration. In contrast, focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757528
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Immigration and Product Diversity
Mazzolari, Francesca - 2009
We study the effects of immigration on the diversity of consumption choices. Data from California in the 1990s indicate … that immigration is associated with fewer stand-alone retail stores, and a greater number of large and in particular big …-box retailers - evidence that likely contradicts a diversity-enhancing effect of immigration. In contrast, focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463748
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Do school-to-work programs help the "forgotten half"?
Neumark, David (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper tests whether school-to-work (STW) programs are particularly beneficial for those less likely to go to college in their absence -- often termed the "forgotten half" in the STW literature. The empirical analysis is based on the NLSY97, which allows us to study six types of STW...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003095429
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Measuring the importance of labor market networks
Hellerstein, Judith K. (contributor);  … - 2008
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760336
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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter it is not publicly available - in particular, data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512147
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Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2013
We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The evidence indicates that racial and ethnic segregation at the workplace level remained quite pervasive in 2000. At the same time, there was fairly substantial segregation by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711350
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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - 2007
We study workplace segregation in the United States using a unique matched employer employee data set that we have created. We present measures of workplace segregation by education and language, and by race and ethnicity, and - since skill is often correlated with race and ethnicity we assess...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072039
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SPATIAL MISMATCH, IMMIGRANT NETWORKS, AND HISPANIC EMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa P.; Neumark, … - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2010
We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680267
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Do school-to-work programs help the forgotten half?
Neumark, David; Rothstein, Donna - 2005
This paper tests whether school-to-work (STW) programs are particularly beneficial for those less likely to go to college in their absence often termed the forgotten half in the STW literature. The empirical analysis is based on the NLSY97, which allows us to study six types of STW programs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267351
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Measuring the importance of labor market networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2008
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269364