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Housing inequality in the United States : a decomposition analysis of racial and ethnic disparities in homeownership
DeSilva, Sanjaya; Elmelech, Yuval - 2009
In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership … Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the trajectory into homeownership of … homeownership. The unique (merged) dataset enables the authors to distinguish assimilation (length of residence) from immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859919
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Housing Inequality in the United States : A Decomposition Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Homeownership
DeSilva, Sanjaya; Elmelech, Yuval - 2015
In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership … Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the trajectory into homeownership of … homeownership. The unique (merged) dataset enables the authors to distinguish assimilation (length of residence) from immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207625
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Geographic Mobility, Race, and Wage Discrimination
Raphael, Steven P.; Riker, David A. - 1998
This paper analyzes the relationship between geographic mobility and earnings. We present an equilibrium search model that yields differences between the reservation wages of mobile and immobile workers. The expected wages of mobile workers exceed those of immobile workers due to partial sorting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089444
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"Can't get enough" : prejudice, contact jobs and the racial wage gap in the US
Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252637
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'Can't Get Enough' : Prejudice, Contact Jobs and the Racial Wage Gap in the US
Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057458
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A household-level decomposition of the white–black homeownership gap
Fesselmeyer, Eric; Le, Kien T.; Seah, Kiat Ying - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 1-2, pp. 52-62
This paper uses a semiparametric homeownership model to estimate and to decompose the household-level white …–black homeownership gap into an endowment component and a residual component across the distribution of homeownership rates. We find that … the racial gap differs across homeownership rates and that studies that examine the gap only at the mean may be misleading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608495
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Alternative measures of homeownership gaps across segregated neighborhoods
Carrillo, Paul E.; Yezer, Anthony M. J. - In: Regional science & urban economics 39 (2009) 5, pp. 542-552
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897630
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The new deal, race, and home ownership in the 1920s and 1930s
Kollmann, Trevor M.; Fishback, Price Van Meter - In: The American economic review 101 (2011) 3, pp. 366-370
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Race and home ownership from the end of the Civil War to the president
Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. - In: The American economic review 101 (2011) 3, pp. 355-359
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009266664
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A household-level decomposition of the white-black homeownership gap
Fesselmeyer, Eric; Le, Kien T.; Kiat Ying Seah - In: Regional science & urban economics 42 (2012) 1/2, pp. 52-62
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621233