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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel A. - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle

Biddle, Jeff E.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Women's relative earnings are harmed by...

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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...

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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

Burda, Michael; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market … marital status; nor do they stem from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work difference is due to … to account for within-education group and within-region gender differences in total work being smaller than inter …

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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010

market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …

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Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore co-ethnic hiring among new ventures using U.S. administrative data. Co-ethnic hiring is ubiquitous among immigrant groups, averaging about 22.5% and ranging from <2% to >40%. Co-ethnic hiring grows with the size of the local ethnic workforce, greater linguistic distance to English, lower...</2%>

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Strike Three : Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

Parsons, Christopher A. - 2007

and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior -- in … determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer runs per game …

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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2006

This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one's group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three main...

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An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2005

There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...

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