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We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...
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immigrant threat and, thus, affects individuals' beliefs about the need for immigrants' cultural assimilation. Empirical …' cultural assimilation and, second, is an important contextual moderating variable that shapes the effect of individual …-level characteristics on their beliefs. Thus, individual beliefs about the necessity of immigrants' cultural assimilation versus …
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We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the …
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that the completely connected network is stable, although, its exact structure, and thus contagion implications, is …
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review is on studies that use network analysis paying special attention to those that apply complex analysis techniques …
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linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …
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-ethnics increases migrants' interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration …
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migrants and refugees relative to family migrants, for men and individuals below the median age, and for individuals with …
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Inequality of opportunity, particularly when overlaid with racial, ethnic, or cultural differences, increases the social distance between individuals, which is widely believed to limit the scope of cooperation. A central question, then, is how to bridge such divides. We study the effects of a...
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additionally provide new evidence suggesting that these inequalities might be related to the failing economic assimilation of …
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