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50 publications found, searching for 'Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Structure '

• Working Paper No. 965
  July 28, 2020

  First Palestinian Intifada and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

  Sameh Hallaq
  Abstract

  This paper attempts to estimate the intergenerational transmission of human capital in Palestine. The main question is whether formal parental education improves their offspring’s cognitive skills and school achievements. I…more

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• Policy Note No. 3
  April 20, 2020

  Immigration Policy Undermines the US Pandemic Response

  Martha Tepepa
  Abstract

  Research Scholar Martha Tepepa explains how the US response to the COVID-19 crisis will be hindered by its approach to immigration policy. The administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration campaign creates a…more

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• Working Paper No. 950
  April 08, 2020

  Public Charge in the Time of Coronavirus

  Martha Tepepa
  Abstract

  The United States government recently passed legislation and stabilization packages to respond to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak by providing paid sick leave, tax credits, and free virus…more

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• One-Pager No. 59
  April 23, 2019

  The Limitations of the “Populism” Explanation

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  Some common accounts of “populism” and its causes risk leading us away from understanding what is happening today in parts of the democratic West, according to Senior Scholar Joel Perlmann….more

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• One-Pager No. 58
  November 09, 2018

  A Citizenship Question on the US Census

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  The Trump administration is facing a legal challenge to its efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census—a question that was first included in 1890, but has…more

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• Book Series
  April 01, 2018

  America Classifies the Immigrants

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  In America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census (Harvard University Press, 2018), Senior Scholar Joel Perlmann traces the evolution of thinking about “race” and “ethnic groups”…more

• Policy Note No. 3
  August 04, 2016

  The Impact of Immigration on the Native-born Unemployed

  Fernando Rios-Avila and Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza
  Abstract

  In this policy note, Research Scholar Fernando Rios-Avila and Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Universidad EAFIT, observe that immigration in the United States has a small but statistically significant impact on the labor…more

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• Working Paper No. 870
  August 01, 2016

  Unemployed, Now What?

  Fernando Rios-Avila and Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza
  Abstract

  Although one would expect the unemployed to be the population most likely affected by immigration, most of the studies have concentrated on investigating the effects immigration has on the employed…more

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• Working Paper No. 858
  January 12, 2016

  Gender Dimensions of Inequality in the Countries of Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Western CIS

  Tamar Khitarishvili
  Abstract

  The collapse of the Soviet Union initiated an unprecedented social and economic transformation of the successor countries and altered the gender balance in a region that counted gender equality as…more

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• Policy Note No. 8
  December 17, 2015

  The US Census Asks About Race and Ethnicity: 1980–2020

  Joel Perlmann and Patrick Nevada
  Abstract

  This policy note examines the formulation and reformulation of questions deployed by the US Census Bureau to gather information on racial and ethnic origin in recent decades. The likely outcome…more

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• Working Paper No. 857
  December 17, 2015

  Ethno-Racial Origin in US Federal Statistics: 1980–2020

  Joel Perlmann and Patrick Nevada
  Abstract

  This paper describes the transformations in federal classification of ethno-racial information since the civil rights era of the 1960s. These changes were introduced in the censuses of 1980 and 2000,…more

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• 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. 756
  February 14, 2013

  Long-Term Benefits from Temporary Migration

  Sanjaya DeSilva
  Abstract

  Utilizing a nationally representative sample of households from Sri Lanka, this study examines gender differences in the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM)…more

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• Working Paper No. 689
  October 05, 2011

  Effects of Legal and Unauthorized Immigration on the US Social Security System

  Selçuk Eren, Hugo Benítez-Silva, and Eva Cárceles-Poveda
  Abstract

  Immigration is having an increasingly important effect on the social insurance system in the United States. On the one hand, eligible legal immigrants have the right to eventually receive pension…more

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• Working Paper No. 648
  January 06, 2011

  Views of European Races among the Research Staff of the US Immigration Commission and the Census Bureau, ca. 1910

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  This paper discusses support for, and opposition to, racial classification of European immigrants among high-level researchers at both the United States Immigration Commission of 1907–11 (the Dillingham Commission) and the…more

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• Working Paper No. 646
  December 22, 2010

  A Demographic Base for Ethnic Survival?

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  New data from the IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) project permit an exploration of the demographic basis for ethnic survival across successive generations. I first explore the degree of…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. 599
  May 18, 2010

  Racial Preferences in a Small Urban Housing Market

  Sanjaya DeSilva, Anh Pham, and Michael Smith
  Abstract

  This paper use spatial econometric models to test for racial preferences in a small urban housing market. Identifying racial preferences is difficult when unobserved neighborhood amenities vary systematically with racial…more

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• Working Paper No. 588
  March 08, 2010

  Decomposition of the Black-White Wage Differential in the Physician Market

  Tsu-Yu Tsao and Andrew Pearlman
  Abstract

  This paper proposes a difference-in-differences strategy to decompose the contributions of various types of discrimination to the black-white wage differential. The proposed estimation strategy is implemented using data from 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. 526
  December 21, 2007

  American Jewish Opinion about the Future of the West Bank

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  American Jewish opinion about the Arab-Israel conflict matters for both American and Israeli politics as well as for American Jewish life. This paper undertakes an analysis of that opinion based…more

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• Working Paper No. 508
  July 18, 2007

  The American Jewish Committee’s Annual Opinion Surveys

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  The American Jewish Committee (AJC) surveys of Jewish opinion are unique both in being conducted annually and in the subject matter covered. This paper assesses the quality of these samples….more

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• Working Paper No. 507
  July 17, 2007

  Who’s a Jew in an Era of High Intermarriage?

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  The old ways in which surveys of Jews handled marginal cases no longer make sense, and the number of cases involved is no longer small. I examine in detail the…more

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• Working Paper No. 501
  May 21, 2007

  Two National Surveys of American Jews, 2000–01

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  While there have been very few national surveys of American Jews, two that we do have are from the same period, 2000–01. They were conducted by different researchers using different…more

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