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Poverty Rates Of Refugees And Immigrants, Christopher R. Bollinger, Paul Hagstrom
Poverty Rates Of Refugees And Immigrants, Christopher R. Bollinger, Paul Hagstrom
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
No abstract.
Does Regional Variation In Multiple Measures Of Health Status Differ Across Income Levels?, Janet M. Bronstein, Shailender Swaminathan, Joshua Klapow
Does Regional Variation In Multiple Measures Of Health Status Differ Across Income Levels?, Janet M. Bronstein, Shailender Swaminathan, Joshua Klapow
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
This study examines whether regional variations in health status measures are consistent across the income gradient, or whether they are more pronounced at the lowest income levels. We use data from the Community Tracking Survey, a large randomized telephone survey of residents in 60 U.S. communities. Controlling for individual risk factors and county level income inequality, lowest income individuals have poorer scores on counts of chronic diseases, global health ratings, and the physical and mental components of the SF-12. Residents of the South have poorer scores on chronic disease counts, global health and physical health than residents of the Northeast, …
Relative Prices And Substitution Across Wage, Welfare, And Disability Income, James P. Ziliak
Relative Prices And Substitution Across Wage, Welfare, And Disability Income, James P. Ziliak
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
In this paper I exploit the fact that the social and economic reforms over the past two decades differentially affected the opportunity costs of non-participation in work, welfare, and disability programs for single mothers across different birth-year and education cohorts. This cohort variation in after-tax wages and transfer benefits is used to identify own- and cross-price elasticities of demand for and substitution across wage, welfare, and disability income over 1979 to 2001 in the Current Population Survey. To estimate these key parameters I model household preferences with a conditional Almost Ideal Demand System that admits corner solutions, nonseparability, endogenous wages …
The New Promised Land: Black-White Convergence In The American South, 1940-2000, Jacob L. Vigdor
The New Promised Land: Black-White Convergence In The American South, 1940-2000, Jacob L. Vigdor
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
The black-white earnings gap has historically been larger in the South than in other regions of the United States. This paper shows that this regional gap has closed over time, and in fact reversed during the last decades of the twentieth century. Three proposed explanations for this trend focus on changing patterns of selective migration, reduced discrimination in Southern labor markets, and lower levels of school segregation and school resource disparities in the modern South relative to the North. Evidence suggests that reductions in Southern labor market discrimination explain rapid regional convergence in racial wage gaps between 1960 and 1980. …
The Rise Of Low-Skill Immigration In The South, George J. Borjas
The Rise Of Low-Skill Immigration In The South, George J. Borjas
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
The 1990s witnessed a significant geographic redistribution of immigration away from the traditional immigrant-receiving states, mainly California, and towards other parts of the country, mainly the Southern states that have not historically been immigrant-receiving states. This paper documents the impact of this change in immigrant settlement patterns on the skill endowment of the workforce in Southern states. The empirical analysis indicates that the recent change in immigrant settlement patterns led to the rise of a sizable foreign-born low-skill workforce in the South, particularly outside Florida and Texas. This workforce developed both as a result of increased settlement of many newly …
Food Stamp Program Participation Of Refugees And Immigrants, Christopher Bollinger, Paul Hagstrom
Food Stamp Program Participation Of Refugees And Immigrants, Christopher Bollinger, Paul Hagstrom
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
No abstract.
Prospects Of Agricultural Entrepreneurship Among Resource Limited Farmers In The Central Appalachian Tobacco Belt, M’Kiaira Kimathi Miriti, Eric Scorsone
Prospects Of Agricultural Entrepreneurship Among Resource Limited Farmers In The Central Appalachian Tobacco Belt, M’Kiaira Kimathi Miriti, Eric Scorsone
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
Agricultural entrepreneurship is receiving heightened attention as a potential means for economic revitalization of communities adversely affected by changes in the agricultural sector. In particular, resource limited farmers in the Appalachian region of the United States have been hit by major changes in the tobacco industry. Very little is known about resource limited farmers respond to changing industry conditions and policy attempts to remedy structural change. Recently, the Commonwealth of Kentucky has attempted to assist farmers in adopting new farmbased enterprises to expand their income base. However, it is unclear about the factors that drive entrepreneurial or diversification activities among …