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6 publications found, searching for 'Yuval Elmelech '

• Working Paper No. 815
  September 17, 2014

  Public Preferences for Redistributive Policies in Israel

  Yuval Elmelech
  Abstract

  This paper contributes to the literature on inequality and welfare policy by studying public support for redistributive policies in Israel, a society with an extreme level of socioeconomic inequality. Drawing…more

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• Working Paper No. 633
  November 02, 2010

  Immigrant Parents’ Attributes versus Discrimination

  Yuval Elmelech and Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  There is much interest in explaining the persistent ethnic gaps in education among Israeli Jews; specifically, the much lower attainments of those from Asian and African countries compared to the…more

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• Working Paper No. 565
  May 19, 2009

  Housing Inequality in the United States

  Yuval Elmelech and Sanjaya DeSilva
  Abstract

  In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership itself remained unevenly distributed, particularly along racial and ethnic lines. By using…more

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• Working Paper No. 417
  January 22, 2005

  Determinants of Minority–White Differentials in Child Poverty

  Yuval Elmelech
  Abstract

  This paper uses data from the 1993–2001 March Current Population Survey to estimate the extent to which child living arrangements, parental work patterns, and immigration attributes shape racial and ethnic…more

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• Working Paper No. 351
  August 01, 2002

  Race, Ethnicity, and the Gender-poverty Gap

  Yuval Elmelech and Hsien-Hen Lu
  Abstract

  We use data from the Current Population Survey (CPS 1994-2001) to document the relationship between gender-specific demographic variations and the gender-poverty gap among eight racial/ethnic groups. We find that black…more

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• Working Paper No. 341
  November 01, 2001

  Israeli Attitudes about Inter Vivos Transfers

  Yuval Elmelech
  Abstract

  Using data from the 1994–95 Survey of Families in Israel—which includes 1,607 urban Jewish respondents interviewed on topics relating to work behavior, household income, wealth, assistance received from parents and…more