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Accounting for the racial property crime gap in the US: A quantitative equilibrium analysis
Cozzi, Marco - 2010
equilibrium model is developed, exploiting these facts to quantitatively assess the race crime gap, that is the difference in … model captures well relevant dimensions of the crime phenomenon, such as the inmates composition by race, employment status …
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Black-White Labour Market Conditions and Property Crime in the US: A Quantitative Analysis
Cozzi, Marco - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2005
crime for black than for white males. In 1996, for example, the property crimes arrest rate by race (per 1.000 people) was … agents to be heterogeneous along four dimensions: race (synthesised by the labour market opportunities), education … racial groups. The model is in turn used both to understand to what extent the patterns in the race wage differentials can …
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College is Not Enough : Higher Education Does Not Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps
Emmons, William R. - 2019
Differences in college and post-graduate degree attainment alone explain less than half of Black-White and Hispanic-White wealth gaps in a standard wealth regression. Differences in family structure and measures of luck such as income windfalls and inheritances explain even less. Measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902288
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Understanding the Black-White Wealth Gap in the United States
Singh, Nirvikar - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between wealth holdings and patterns of various household characteristics, including education, occupation, wealth portfolio structures and inheritance. The focus is on comparing the wealth levels of Black and White Americans, and relating differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236477
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The Great Recession and racial inequality : evidence from measures of economic well-being
Masterson, Thomas; Zacharias, Ajit; Rios-Avila, Fernando; … - 2017
The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591483
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The moral burden on economists : Darrick Hamilton's 2017 NEA presidential address
Hamilton, Darrick - In: The review of black political economy : analyzing … 47 (2020) 4, pp. 331-342
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Parental wealth and the black-white mobility gap in the U.S.
Fox, Liana E. - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 62 (2016) 4, pp. 706-723
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626730
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The widening racial wealth gap in the United States after the great recession
Weller, Christian E.; Hanks, Angela - In: Forum for social economics 47 (2018) 2, pp. 237-252
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Gender and race heterogeneity : the impact of increases in students with limited English on native students' performance
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013
achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229481
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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015
territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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