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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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We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … find large variation in Syrians’ social integration across German counties, and use a movers’ research design to document …
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. Segregation is further exacerbated by "white flight" as white students transfer out of the district after attending more … segregated schools. Ultimately, mandated segregation decreases student test scores and college attendance. …
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-run schools, affect student achievement and school segregation across 15 countries over 16 years. Our triple … negative for immigrants. Impacts on segregation mirror these findings, with evidence of increased segregation by socioeconomic …
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Over sixty years following Brown vs. Board of Education, racial and socioeconomic segregation and lack of equal access …
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, we find no evidence that urban residents benefit from larger networks when spatial sorting is accounted for. Higher …
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, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … denomination, whereas towns are less segregated. Yet, we find relatively lower levels of segregation by literacy. Regression …
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formal sector a decade later, are subject to more severe ethnic segregation on the job and display less linguistic …
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sexist) majority group of customers. There exists a Nash equilibrium with full segregation in which a low-price firm serves … only the minority and a high-price firm serves only the majority. There is also a partial-integration equilibrium in which … price discriminate, none of these equilibria will hold. The partial integration equilibrium depends on how the prejudice of …
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We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level, connections increase over time, but homophily on gender and ethnicity is relatively constant across time, university residences, and different network layers. At the individual...
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