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First fired, first hired? : business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions

Xu, Huanan - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 19, pp. 1-36

Using individual-level Current Population Survey (CPS) data matched across adjacent months from 1996 to 2013, this paper examines immigrant-native differentials in labor market transitions to changes in the business cycle. The paper captures economic fluctuations by measuring deviations in local...

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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to Internet job board applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants. We signal ethnicity by using names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant...

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Latent earning capacity and the race marriage gap

Nakosteen, Robert A.; Zimmer, Michael A. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20

One of the most persistent socioeconomic phenomena in the process of family formation is the relatively low rate of … race marriage gap remains, albeit sometimes in reduced magnitude, even after controlling for economic attributes of … race gap is explained in part by disparities in unobserved earning capacities between black and white men. In doing so …

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Racial inequality in business ownership and income

Fairlie, Robert W. - In: Oxford review of economic policy 34 (2018) 4, pp. 597-614

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 2, pp. 1-18

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants, especially those with limited English language skills....

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Transnational social mobility of minorities : a comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups

Kislev, Elyakim - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 15, pp. 1-21

There is extensive scholarship on the condition of being a minority in one’s home country and vast literature on the experience of immigrants in host countries. However, almost no attention has been paid to the distinct mechanisms pertaining to immigrants who were minorities in the source...

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Does implicit bias predict dictator giving?

Lee, Daniel J. - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/73, pp. 1-19

Implicit associations and biases are carried without awareness or conscious direction, yet there is reason to believe they may be influenced by social pressures. In this paper, I study social pressure as a motive to give, as well as giving itself under conditions of implicit bias. In doing so, I...

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Stigmatization and racial selection after September 11, 2001 : self-identity among Arab and Islamic Americans

Mason, Patrick L.; Matella, Andrew - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21

During the 2000s Arab and Islamic American racial identity selection was subjected to an exogenous racializing event, viz., public and private reaction to the Al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. The Al Qaeda attacks clearly demarcate a period in which there was a structural increase in the...

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Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality

Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-32

At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America’s African diaspora workforce consists of first- or second-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic....

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Reassessing the contributions of Black inventors to the golden age of innovation

Andrews, Michael Jeffrey; Rothwell, Jonathan - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 2, pp. 1-39

During the Second Industrial Revolution and subsequently, it is widely believed that Black Americans contributed disproportionately little to the economic development of the United States, especially in comparison to European Americans and immigrants from Europe. Yet, Black Americans tended to...

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