…disaggregate immigration status from other variables such as poverty, employment and education levels to determine the precise relationship between immigration and crime rates. The study’s findings include: Controlling for the…
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…the University of Warwick, “Does High Home-Ownership Impair the Labor Market?” suggests that having more homeowners can have a negative impact on the employment situation at the state level. Tags:…
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…housing recovery in check — high unemployment and foreclosure rates, tighter credit standards and even a growing preference for renting. Despite the economic headwinds, a 2012 report from the Joint…
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…larger, denser metropolitan areas. This helped keep such cities’ overall unemployment rates relatively low and also boosted real-estate values. New residents’ demands for cultural amenities and other “soft infrastructure” can…
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…of public capital of about 16%.” The researchers note that the indirect effect of public capital on employment and private capital formation, which are held constant in the estimation, are…
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…or university in Appalachia obtaining first employment in an Appalachian district of average characteristics are well over three times that of her non-Appalachian counterpart. Combined with our earlier findings that…
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…employment status: “Many more pre-schoolers of nonemployed mothers than employed mothers were not in a regular child care arrangement (72% and 12%, respectively).” “On average, children with employed mothers spent…
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…Facebook by their students. Students may underestimate the potential implications for employment or future educational opportunities that could be impacted by displayed alcohol content on Facebook.” Tags: news, Twitter, Facebook…
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…and Stephen Ceci of Cornell University suggests that STEM employment is less conducive to family-building than other fields. A 2010 paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that…
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…of microfinance cannot be separated from the broader local and macroeconomic dynamics of livelihood and employment, consumption, investment and financial development in general.” For ongoing updates to the microfinance debate,…
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