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What Explains Growing Gender and Racial Education Gaps?
1 Introduction College graduation rates in the United States have risen substantially in recent cohorts. In this paper, we study how graduation rates varied by birth cohort, gender, and race/ethnicity; and what forces drive these changes. Figure 1 plots college graduation rates for men and women in 5-year birth cohorts from 1960 to 1990, separately for White, Black, and Hispanic Americans, using CPS data.
“The very strong shekel reflects macroeconomic conditions”
Israel’s foreign exchange market is volatile. The shekel, which broke a 30-year record against the US dollar last week, has since weakened slightly, but is still trading at 1990s levels. Overall, the Israeli currency has strengthened by more than 13% in the past year. This appreciation brings with it positive developments, mainly in terms of easing the cost of living and a decline in the inflation rate, which was cut to a four-and-a-half-year low in January.
What Explains Growing Gender and Racial Education Gaps?
This research was supported by Australian Research Council (ARC) grants FL110100247 and DP210103319 and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Aging Research (Cepar) grants CE170100005 and CE110001029. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Committee pinpoints causes of high prices in Israel
The Committee for the Promotion of the Trade and Service Sectors says low productivity in these sectors weighs on the entire economy. Regulation and burdensome bureaucracy, high concentration and barriers to entry, along with low investment in innovation, are the main problems in commerce and industry making it hard for Israeli firms to compete in international markets.
A growth strategy for the Israeli economy
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Annual economic growth in Israel of 3.5% over the past decade has largely been the result of an increase in employment rates, while the growth rate in productivity has been very low. The rates of employment cannot continue to grow at this rate in the future due to the expected saturation in employment rates among the non-ultra-Orthodox Jewish population.
Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?
Cited by 65 Crossref Citations This article has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by CrossRef. Richman, Barak D. 2006. How Community Institutions Create Economic Advantage: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York. Law <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&"/> Social Inquiry, Vol. 31, Issue. 2, p. 383. CrossRef Google Scholar Richman, Barak D. 2006. The Global Diamond Industry. p. 44. CrossRef Google Scholar McCleary, Rachel M. 2007.
Israeli Voters Don’t Care About the Economy. They Should.
When the economy of a country has faced excessive government intervention alongside high deficits, debt crises, inflation, and severe recessions in the past, as well as high cost of living and rampant inequality in the present, one would expect that economic policies would be the focus of an election campaign. But that’s not the case in Israel—a country where the economy continues to be a second- or even third-order issue. The main issue for Israelis voting on Sept.
The Chosen Few: A New Explanation of Jewish Success
By Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein A note from Paul Solman: Nine years ago, someone sent me an academic paper that put forward a radically new explanation of why Jews have been so successful economically.
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