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The recent debate over minimum wages raises two questions. First, should policy makers no longer believe that minimum wages entail negative consequences for teenagers? Second, should economists discard the competitive labor market model? Our evidence for teenagers, using matched CPS surveys,...
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results include: 1) The impact of paternal self-employment differs by race. 2) Even independent of father's occupation, family … family background, and in particular, on what we call the intergenerational pick-up rate with respect to self-employment, the …, a data source with rich information on individuals' family histories, to investigate how family background affects self …
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We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return to English knowledge. In cross-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education. Language acquisition is an important element...
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are related to labor market success, including race, gender, parental background, education, test scores, and variables …
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On tests of intelligence, Blacks systematically score worse than Whites, whereas Asians frequently outperform Whites. Some have argued that genetic differences across races account for the gap. Using a newly available nationally representative data set that includes a test of mental function for...
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We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The … find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased …
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, uncovering differential patterns by race, education, age and family structure that would not have emerged in the more aggregate … neighborhoods. The bulk of the increase in average family income in gentrifying neighborhoods is attributed to black high school …
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crews to basketball games, and the number of repeated interactions allow us to convincingly test for own-race preferences … fouls are called against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race refereeing crew than when officiated by an own-race …
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-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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We address the ordinality of test scores by rescaling them by the average eventual educational attainment of students with a given test score in a given grade. We show that measurement error in test scores causes this approach to underestimate the black-white test score gap and use an...
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