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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned Chinese immigration and institutionalized discrimination against Chinese in U.S. society. This study examines the impact of institutional discrimination on the assimilation of Chinese by exploiting the passage of the Act and the state-level variation in...
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mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been …
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economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates …
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This paper attempts to establish empirically the link between workplace gender diversity and employee job-related well … unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find that gender diversity is associated with lower employee well-being among women in …
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techniques to account for unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find that workplace disability diversity is associated with lower …
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-worker similarity in all five dimensions substantially depresses voluntary turnover whereas workplace diversity is of limited importance …
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2010 when the ECB issued a public statement supporting diversity and took several measures to support gender balance …
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Using a matched employer-employee data-set, we analyze how workforce diversity in terms of cultural background … the firms' production function (Ackerberg et al. 2006), we find that labor diversity in education significantly enhances a … firm's value added. Conversely, diversity in ethnicity and demographics induces negative effects on firm productivity …
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In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … instrumental variable strategies, we are able to identify the contribution of workers' diversity in cultural background, education … in different technological areas (extensive margin). We find that ethnic diversity plays an important role in propelling …
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if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce and … composition inside the establishment. Diversity thus seems to induce externalities beyond the boundaries of a single firm; it …
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