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The dynamics of referral hiring and racial inequality: evidence from Brazil
Miller, Conrad; Schmutte, Ian - 2021
to hire candidates and less likely to dismiss employees of the same race as the founder, but these differences diminish …
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The effect of immigration on native earnings
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2000
This study investigates the extent of labour market competition among nativeDutch workers and ethnicminorities, using national survey of the SEO and the Population statistics ofthe CBS. Firstly, the directeffect of immigrants on local labour markets is considered. It is shown thatethnic...
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The effects of high-skilled immigration policy on firms : evidence from visa lotteries
Doran, Kirk B.; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022
We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...
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Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014
Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many countries have established special visas and entry...
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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives
Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2018
The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...
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How Skills Acquired during Youth Affect Later Racial and Ethnic Homeownership Gaps
Liu, Liyi; McManus, Douglas A. - 2021
The effects of skills achieved in early adulthood—as measured by the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) score, the Rotter score, and Deming’s (2017) Social score—are shown to impact education, income, and homeownership levels achieved in later life. Mediation analysis is used to identify...
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Workplace Segregation in the United States : Race, Ethnicity, and Skill
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David - 2007
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 the role of education - and language-related skill differentials in … generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity. We define segregation based on the extent to which workers are more or …
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Persistent Racial Wage Inequality
Antonovics, Kate - 2003
This paper attempts to understand the forces that have lead to persistent racial wage inequality by developing a dynamic model of statistical discrimination that accounts for the transmission of earnings across generations. The parameters of this model are then estimated using data from the 1970...
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What makes a 'jack-of-all-trades'?
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2009
Das Papier untersucht die 'Jack-of-all-Trades'-Hypothese. Diese unterstellt, dass nicht die Höhe der Produktivität eines Individuums ausschlaggebend ist für eine selbständige Aktivität, sondern deren Bandbreite an Fähigkeiten oder Erfahrung (Lazear 2005). Die Analyse konzentriert sich auf...
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Human capital diversity and entrepreneurship : results from the regional individual skill dispersion nexus on self-employment activity
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2013 - This version: 20.12.2013
Human capital has been shown to be highly important in the venture creation process. In this study, we account for the fact that human capital on the individual and regional levels may be interrelated in affecting entrepreneurship. We use German survey data, which allow us to focus on a specific...
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