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    The impact of affirmative action in India and the United States
    – A systematic literature review
    Simone Schotte, Tharcisio Leone, Rachel M. Gisselquist - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
    This paper provides a systematic review of quantitative literature investigating the success of affirmative action policies in addressing socio-economic inequalities between ethnic groups in education and employment. We focus on two of the most influential national experiences: caste-based...
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    Taxless fiscal states
    – Lessons from 19th-century America and 21st-century China
    Yuen Yuen Ang - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
    How do modern fiscal states arise? Perhaps the most dominant explanation, based on the European experience, is that democratic institutions that limited the extractive power of states—exemplified by the 1688 Glorious Revolution in England—paved the way for the rise of fiscal capacity and subsequent...
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    Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility
    – The case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States
    Carl L. Bankston, Min Zhou - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , 2021
    Part of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
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    Afghanistan 2021: A quickly made long tragedy
    Lant Pritchett - Lant Pritchett , 2021
    The tragedy for the Afghan people of the Taliban re-taking control of the country in August 2021 is the denouement of a process 20 years in the making. The sudden collapse of the Afghan government and the national security forces over the course of a few days is not a “surprise” to anyone, but was a...
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    Clientelism and development: is there a poverty trap?
    Susan Stokes - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
    There are sound theoretical reasons to expect clientelism to suppress economic growth: politicians who garner support by offering employment to voters and grassroots party members can do so more effectively when the voters’ participation constraint is met with low wages. Hence, clientelism can...
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    Do pandemics lead to rebellion? Policy responses to COVID-19, inequality, and protests in the USA
    Francesco Iacoella, Patricia Justino, Bruno Martorano - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
    This paper analyses how inequality across counties in the United States of America has shaped the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of protests. The empirical analysis combines weekly data between January and December 2020 on levels of COVID-19-related policy stringency and protest...
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    Clientelism – another reason to worry about US democracy
    Rachel M. Gisselquist - The Loop , 2021
    The last several months have given us many reasons to worry about US democracy – not least the riot at the US Capitol and the president’s refusal to accept the results of the November election, with Republican support. Rachel Gisselquist argues that clientelism is yet another reason to worry...
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    Size matters: measuring the effects of inequality and growth shocks
    Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Rui Sun - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
    Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and social scientists. In this paper we use a Bayesian structural vector autoregression approach to estimate the relationship between inequality and growth via growth and inequality...
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    Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States
    Carlos Gradín - Applied Economics , 2020
    We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider the stratification of occupations by gender, i.e. when either women or men are predominantly segregated into low-paying jobs. We propose the use of the concentration curve to analyse first-order stochastic dominance, and...
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    Are routine jobs moving south?
    – Evidence from changes in the occupational structure of employment in the USA and Mexico
    Guido Matias Cortes, Diego M. Morris - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
    The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased offshoring towards lower-income countries such as Mexico has been proposed as a potential driver of this decline. Our analysis provides a unique and new approach to address the...
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    China and the United States
    – Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
    Roy van der Weide, Ambar Narayan - UNU-WIDER , 2019 - Helsinki, Finland
    The United States and China are the world’s largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world’s economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes unrealized...
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    Successfully integrating refugee populations
    – What can we learn from the experience of Vietnamese Americans?
    Carl L. Bankston - UNU-WIDER , 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
    Policy makers should see integration and upward mobility, and not simply placement and survival, as goals of resettlement of refugees. Our research on the integration of Vietnamese refugees in the United States shows that this population has demonstrated high levels of upward mobility. Drawing on...
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    Economic integration of Afghan refugees in the US, 1980–2015
    Carl Stempel, Qais Alemi - UNU-WIDER , 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
    Using 1990 5% Census and American Community Survey data, we examine the economic integration of Afghan refugees to the US, focusing on employment rates and income levels. First-wave Afghan refugees (those arriving 1980–90) have made significant income and employment gains, while poverty rates and...
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    Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility
    – The case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States
    Carl L. Bankston III, Min Zhou - UNU-WIDER , 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
    In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group in a host country. We approach this case in three parts. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic community...
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    Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States
    Carlos Gradín - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
    We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i.e. when women or men are predominantly segregated into low-paying jobs. For this, we propose to use concentration curves and indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows...
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    US Policy Contributions to Agricultural Commodity Price Fluctuations 2006-12
    Gordon C. Rausser, Harry de Gorter - , 2014
    From the book: Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability
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