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Does Wealth Explain Black-White Differences in Early Employment Careers?
Rendon, Silvio - Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), Departamento … - 2006
In this paper I inquire about the effects initial wealth has on black-white differences in early employment careers. I set up a dynamic model in which individuals simultaneously search for a job and accumulate wealth, and fit it to data from the National Longitudinal Survey (1979-cohort). The...
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A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria: How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment
Basu, Kaushik; Felkey, Amanda J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
in developing countries have multiple equilibria – the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income … increases unemployment rates. As corollaries, we show that (1) within the same society, two different racial groups that may be …
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The importance of full-time work for urban adults' mental and physical health
Rosenthal, Lisa; Carroll-Scott, Amy; Earnshaw, Valerie A.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 9, pp. 1692-1696
Unemployment and underemployment have adverse mental and physical health consequences, such as increased stress and … chronic disease risk. In this adverse economic climate, it is vital to understand the health implications of unemployment and … employed full-time reported the least damaging psychological factors and health behaviors: lowest levels of stress and …
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Proposed Identification of Environmental Tobacco Smoke as a Toxic Air Contaminant
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC …; … - 2005
mid-2005 produced by the California Air Resources Board and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment as part of …
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Heat Waves at Conception and Later Life Outcomes
Wilde, Joshua; Apouey, Benedicte; Jung, Toni - Department of Economics, University of South Florida - 2014
This paper explores whether heat waves at conception, while in utero, or after birth cause better educational and health outcomes as adults. Using Census and DHS data from sub-Saharan Africa, we show that individuals conceived during heat waves have higher educational attainment and literacy,...
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Does male age have an influence on the risk of spontaneous abortion? An approach combining semiparametric and parametric regression
Slama, Rémy; Werwatz, Axel; Boutou, Odile; Ducot, Béatrice - Sonderforschungsbereich 373, Quantifikation und … - 2002
Couples from Western countries tend to delay their pregnancies, which may affect their ability to obtain a live birth. We assessed the association between male age and the risk of spontaneous abortion taking into account woman's age. We performed telephone interviews on a ross-sectional random...
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Black-White Differences in Consumption: An Update and Some Policy Implications
Betsey, Charles - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 41 (2014) 3, pp. 259-270
Marcus Alexis, in his Ph. D. dissertation and in later published work, conducted pioneering work in the area of black-white differences in consumption behavior and thereby influenced our understanding of household behavior and significantly impacted the field of marketing. This paper...
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More on Non-White Poverty and Economic Growth in the United States
Hoover, Gary A.; Yaya, Mehmet E.; Collins, Sondra R. - In: Journal of Income Distribution 20 (2011) 1, pp. 63-82
€“ growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), unemployment, and manufacturing employment – on poverty among whites, blacks and … the unemployment rate, while white poverty tends to be strongly related to changes in manufacturing. …
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Price Discrimination in the Housing Market
Bayer, Patrick; Casey, Marcus D.; Ferreira, Fernando; … - Duke University, Department of Economics - 2012
This paper sets out a new research design to test for price discrimination by sellers in the housing market. The design controls carefully for unobserved differences in the quality of neighborhoods and homes purchased by buyers of each race, using novel panel data from over two million...
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Racial/Ethnic Income Inequality Responses to a Government Maintenance Program in the United States
Hoover, Gary A.; Yaya, Mehmet E. - In: Public Finance Review 39 (2011) 3, pp. 462-478
In this study, the authors investigate the income inequality responses of Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics in the United States to the income maintenance program Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) using cross sections of state-level data. The results show that this program indeed...
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