Abstract. Has the rise of rewards to long and inflexible work schedules altered the household-level economic viability of gendered divisions of paid work w

Asian Americans are considered a model minority due to their high socioeconomic attainments. On average, they earn more than native-born Whites, but their tendency to live in relatively high-cost area...

Ethnic niches (jobs or sectors where an ethnic group is overrepresented) help sociologists understand immigrant mobility across generations. While ‘niche’ can describe many industries, U.S. immigra...

Has inequality grown over the last half century? The great debate continues!

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New research finds that the U.S. racial wealth divide narrowed after the Civil War but then stagnated and even began to grow starting in the 1980s.

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