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Neighborhood Segregation and Black Entrepreneurship
Fesselmeyer, Eric - 2017
We examine the causal effect of neighborhood segregation on black entrepreneurship. We address neighborhood sorting by … analyzing city averages and omitted variable bias by instrumenting for segregation using historical railroad configurations. We … find that segregation has a significant positive effect: a 10 percentage point increase in the dissimilarity index …
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Ethnic Residential Segregation and Immigrants’ Perceptions of Discrimination in West Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2015
self-selection plays an important role in immigrant residential segregation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014174778
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Partner ethnicity and ethnic minority socio-economic occupation evidence from the UK
Morando, Greta - 2014
What role does integration play in reducing disparities in the labour market between ethnic minority and white majority populations? We shed light on this question by comparing the socio-economic positions of ethnic minorities in co- and inter-ethnic partnerships. We implement propensity score...
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Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Minority Occupational Attainments in the UK 2014-2018
Kausar, Rukhsana; Malki, Issam - 2022
The integration and assimilation of ethnic minority immigrants (EMIs) and their subsequent generations remains a serious unsettled issue in most of the host countries. This study conducts the labour market gender analysis to investigate specifically whether second generation of ethnic minority...
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Estimating labor market slack, U.S. 1994-2019
Komlos, John - 2019
U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However, during the Great Recession it exceeded U3 by 7...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123041
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Ethnic Conflict, Wars and International Migration of Turkmen : Evidence from Iraq
Sirkeci, Ibrahim - 2006
Ethnic conflicts and wars have been a significant factor determining minority populations' outflow from Iraq. Turkmen as such minority have been subjected to oppression. Limited economic opportunities combined with the effects of wars imposed an environment of insecurity on Turkmen. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057037
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Types of spatial mobility and the ethnic context of destination neighbourhoods in Estonia
Mägi, Kadi; Leetmaa, Kadri; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
Most studies of the ethnic composition of destination neighbourhoods after residential moves do not take into account the types of moves people have made. However, from an individual perspective, different types of moves may result in neighbourhood environments that differ in terms of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428182
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An Unintended Consequence of Mortgage Financing Regulation - A Racial Disparity
Kau, James B. - 2020
This study investigates whether mortgage financing regulation unintentionally leads to minorities paying a higher loan contract rate under a risk-based pricing system. We provide evidence that minority borrowers prepay less frequently than comparable non-minority borrowers and thus have lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842179
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Race and Bankruptcy : Explaining Racial Disparities in Consumer Bankruptcy
Morrison, Edward R. - 2019
African American bankruptcy filers are more likely to select Chapter 13 than other debtors, who opt instead for Chapter 7, which has higher success rates and lower attorney fees. Prior scholarship blames racial discrimination by bankruptcy attorneys. We present an alternative explanation:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899824
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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia
Mägi, Kadi - 2016
Most studies of the ethnic composition of destination neighbourhoods after residential moves do not take into account the types of moves people have made. However, from an individual perspective, different types of moves may result in neighbourhood environments that differ in terms of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001871