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among Vietnamese refugees using American Community Survey data from 1980 to 2015 and survey data. We examine how this ethnic …, occupation, and income. Third, we seek to explain what enables Vietnamese refugees and their children to overcome initial …
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Williams (2022) ties the political participation of Blacks to historical lynchings that occurred in the United States. Her findings document lower Black voter registration rates in southern counties with greater number of historical lynchings. We show that this effect is driven by four outlier...
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The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political … the early 1990s; and the exodus of refugees from the former Yugoslavia during the long series of Balkan wars between 1991 …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States …
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favorable. However, identification is possible for refugees as their arrival dates are exogenously determined through the US …
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Many countries have reduced refugee admissions in recent years, in part due to fears that refugees and asylum seekers … the lowest number of refugees resettled on US soil since 1977 and a 66% drop in resettlement from 2016 to 2017. We find …
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refugees as opposed to all immigrants on aggregate. …
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According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of refugees worldwide rose to 21.3 million in … 2015. Yet, resistance to the welcoming of refugees appears to have grown. The possibility that refugees may commit acts of … for these fears? We exploit the variation in the geographic and temporal distribution of refugees across U.S. counties to …
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The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
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This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of several data sets (the International Social Survey...
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