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Comparing the Effects of Policies for the Labor Market Integration of Refugees

Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark during the last three decades. We first review the studies that use a credible … identification strategy to evaluate the causal effects of these types of policies on the assimilation of refugees in developed … countries. We then describe the dynamics of labor market outcomes of several cohorts of refugees in Denmark. To our knowledge …

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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States …

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The Social Construction of Race during Reconstruction

Adukia, Anjali; Hornbeck, Richard; Keniston, Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We examine the social construction of race during the United States' Reconstruction Era, a critical juncture between slavery and Jim Crow segregation. We show that people with the same detailed skin tone, recorded by the Freedman's Bank (1865-1874), were more likely racialized as White or...

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Everybody's Talkin' at Me : Levels of Majority Language Acquisition by Minority Language Speakers

Brock, William A.; Chen, Bo; Durlauf, Steven N.; Weber, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an environment where heterogeneous agents from various...

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Retirement Outcomes : Impacts of Outreach

Viceisza, Angelino C. G.; Calhoun, Amaia; Lee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review select literature on racial and ethnic disparities in retirement outcomes and the impact of outreach on such outcomes. First, there are significant disparities in retirement outcomes, reflecting a long history of racism and structural barriers. Second, there is comparatively little...

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The Dynamics of Networks and Homophily

Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen M.; Snowberg, Erik; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?

Price, Gregory N.; Viceisza, Angelino C. G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions that were established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans. In this essay, we focus on two main issues. We start by examining how Black College students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at...

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Ethnic Identity and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment : Evidence from Proposition 187

Antman, Francisca M.; Duncan, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Political discourse has often stoked racial and ethnic divisions, raising the possibility that individuals' self-reported racial and ethnic identities may change in response to an increasingly hostile environment. We shed light on this question by measuring the impacts of local support for...

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Separation of Church and State Curricula? Examining Public and Religious Private School Textbooks

Adukia, Anjali; Harrison, Emileigh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Curricula impart knowledge, instill values, and shape collective memory. Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, and home schools,...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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