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Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...
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This paper analyzes causes of the low self-employment rates among Hispanics, which are nearly half of non …-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics … 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The data reveals differences between Mexican-Hispanics …
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States are increasingly resorting to raising the minimum wage to boost the earnings of those at the bottom of the income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of low-educated Hispanic women, who constitute a growing part of the U.S. labor...
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Latinos comprise a large and growing share of the low-skilled labor force in the U.S. and may be disproportionately affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among Hispanic immigrants and natives compared with non-Hispanic...
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Act, this is the first study to do so for Hispanics. We follow a longitudinal sample of individuals who were in the labor …
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of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanics whites using … characteristics, while the sources of the utilization difference between the whites and Hispanics are split between the differences in …
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In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing and in some cases reversing population declines. In this paper, we examine whether faster growth...
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This article reviews evidence on the labor market performance of Hispanics in the United States, with a particular … used to study Hispanics, we document how Hispanics currently compare with other Americans in terms of education, earnings …-born Hispanics from most national origin groups possess sizeable deficits in earnings, which in large part reflect corresponding …
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substantially lowered attrition rates for second- and third-generation Hispanics and Asians, ethnic attrition remains a significant …
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(first- and second-generation Hispanics) drive the improvement in Hispanic test scores.Later-generation Hispanics …
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