Essays about: "American employment"

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  1. 1. “Are you in the mafia?” : Ethnic discrimination on the American labor market

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Author : Anes Velic; [2023]
    Keywords : Employment gap; earnings gap; ethnic discrimination; exogenous shocks to ethnic discrimination on the labor market; employers’ prejudice;

    Abstract : How did the Italian mafia affect honest Italian descendants on the American labor market? This is a study about how an exogenous shock to ethnic discrimination on the labor market affected a whole ethnic group. The goal with this study is to analyze how a massacre by Al Capone’s crew in 1929 affected Italian workers on the American labor market. READ MORE

  3. 2. Deconstructing Informality: Evidence from South American Household Surveys

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Ana Maria Teresa Morales Curiel; [2021]
    Keywords : labor informality; social security; socio-economic characteristics; household surveys; South America; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The persistence and growth of the informal economy in South America is considered one of the most relevant problems in the region. However, studying informality across countries can be a complicated task due to the lack of homogeneous concepts and measurements. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements Enforceability on Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1995-2011

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Yotam Sofer; [2020]
    Keywords : Non-compete agreements; NCA; current population survey; CPS; business dynamics statistics; DBS; Firms starts; start-ups; Silicon-Valley; Route 128; knowledge spillovers; state-year variation; Difference-in-difference; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Restrictions of future employment in the form of non-compete agreements (agreements that restrict an employee from joining, forming, associating, or starting a competing firm) are commonly used in the American labor market. Yet their effects on entrepreneurship is not fully understood. READ MORE

  5. 4. Structural Change and Income Inequality: evidence from Latin America’s Sectoral Composition (1950 – 2012)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Juan Pablo Julia Ciarelli; [2019]
    Keywords : Structural Change; Income Inequality; Employment; Sectors; Latin America; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Latin America is and has been one of the most unequal regions in the World. Since the end of the Second World War, income inequality has been influenced by the high dependency on exports of agricultural products and raw materials, an early deindustrialization and the rise of low productivity service sectors. READ MORE

  6. 5. Migration from Central America and the Caribbean: The Impact of Social Indicators on Labor Market Performance

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Lena Reibstein; [2018]
    Keywords : migration; integration; Central America; Caribbean; labor market participation; social capital; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : In the last 50 years, immigration from Central America and the Caribbean to the United States of America has been increasing. Because these immigrants often find themselves in vulnerable positions, their successful integration into society should be of public interest. READ MORE