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20th century witnessed Istanbul's unexpected and tumultuous economic, politic, social and spatial transformation. In the first quarter of the 20th century, Istanbul lost half of its population and went through a stagnated duration; however the city regained its importance and former population...
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Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances - who gets what and why - and migration is about improving life chances - getting more...
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We study workplace segregation in the United States using a unique matched employer employee data set that we have … created. We present measures of workplace segregation by education and language, and by race and ethnicity, and - since skill … generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity. We define segregation based on the extent to which workers are more or …
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This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level …, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important …) and calculate an index - mainly the index of dissimilarity - for each of these comparisons, this paper use segregation …
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Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity … across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels … in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation conditioned on the distribution of characteristics reveals that segregation …
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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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In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we collected information on the female participants' menstrual cycles. We find that women bid significantly higher than men in their menstrual and premenstrual phase but do not bid...
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