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The economic status of people with disabilities and their families since the Great Recession

Bengali, Leila; Daly, Mary C.; Lofton, Olivia; … - 2021

People with disabilities face substantial barriers to sustained employment and stable, adequate income. We assess how … from the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) and the March CPS annual income supplement. We find that the expansion …

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Ethnic enclaves and labor market outcomes : what matters most: neighborhood, city or region?

Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge - 2018

, both for their employment and entrepreneurship probability. Whereas residential segregation has a more uniformly …

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Learning but not earning? : The value of job corps training for Hispanic youths

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso (contributor); … - 2005

The National Job Corps Study (NJCS) was a four-year longitudinal social experiment that randomized over 15,000 Job Corps eligible applicants into treatment and control groups. Experimental estimators revealed a positive impact of Job Corps training in the weekly earnings of white and black...

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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities

Gautier, Pieter; Zenou, Yves - 2008

We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...

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Learning But Not Earning? The Value of Job Corps Training for Hispanics

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Gonzalez, Arturo; Neumann, Todd - 2021

The National Job Corps Study (NJCS) was a four-year longitudinal social experiment in which over 15,000 Job Corps eligible applicants were randomized into treatment and control groups. Using experimental estimators, Job Corps was found to have positive impacts in the weekly earnings of white and...

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Spatial commuting patterns of German regional labour markets : a sustainability perspective

Tedeschi, Federico; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012

flows on employment in regional labour markets in Germany. Next, we address sustainability issues as a common umbrella for …, commuter flows have a positive and robust effect on employment in the receiving German labour market districts, while, for … system, which can provide more opportunities for sustainable commuting patterns, may lead to favourable employment …

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Local labour market resilience : the role of digitalisation and working from home

Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2024

context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences … often adopted in regions with higher digital capital. But digital capital smoothed the employment shock beyond the effect of …

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Targeted Cash Transfers, Credit Constraints, and Ethnic Migration in the People’s Republic of China

Howell, Anthony - 2020

This paper relies on recent proprietary data from the People's Republic of China's (PRC) poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit constraints on internal labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via the PRC's minimum living standard assistance (MLSA) program is...

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Targeted cash transfers, credit constraints, and ethnic migration in the People's Republic of China

Howell, Anthony - 2019

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Direct and Spillover Effects of Targeted Cash Transfers on Ethnic Rural-Urban Migration in China

Howell, Anthony - 2017

This paper relies on recent proprietary data from China's poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit constraints on rural-urban labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via China's minimum living security allowance (MLSA) program is decomposed into its direct and...

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