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Racial segregation between American workplaces is greater today than it was a generation ago. This increase has … happened alongside the declines in within-establishment occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We … employment segregation over time. We demonstrate that the return of racial establishment segregation owes little to within …
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This paper develops a measure of segregation based on two premises: (1) a measure of segregation should disaggregate to … interacts. Developing three desirable axioms that any segregation measure should satisfy, we prove that one and only one … segregation index satisfies our three axioms, and the two aims mentioned above; which we coin the Spectral Segregation Index. We …
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The existence of racially and ethnically diverse urban neighborhoods is one of our Nation's best-kept secrets. Instead of telling about these places, the media regularly report on the continued legacy of racial and ethnic tensions in the United States. As the Nation is becoming more racially and...
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illustrate the importance of detailed neighbourhood information we compare social and ethnic segregation measured by Isolation …
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illustrate the importance of detailed neighbourhood information we compare social and ethnic segregation measured by Isolation … ; segregation …
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Guatemala is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America and has the highest incidence of poverty. The … indigenous population is more than twice as likely to be poor than the nonindigenous group. Fiscal incidence analysis based on …
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In a comment to Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012), Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom (2012) argue (i) that the refugee placement program should be measured with contracted rather than actually placed refugees, and claim that the correlation between the two measures is insignificant and close to...
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In a comment to Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012), Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom (2012) argue (i) that the refugee placement program should be measured with contracted rather than actually placed refugees, and claim that the correlation between the two measures is insignificant and close to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709517
Blacks, Hispanics, and divorced women have historically experienced double-digit poverty rates in retirement, and divorce and other demographic trends will increase their representation in future retiree populations. For these reasons, we might expect an increase in the proportion of...
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The debate over market/individual regulation and freedom is not a new discussion. However, a clear understanding of the freedoms (or the lack of freedoms) and their economic consequences on early black Americans provides an informative understanding to the freedoms (or the lack of freedoms), and...
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