This paper examines the differential labor market impacts of immigration on native non-Hispanic white and African American workers across metropolitan areas. Historically, immigrants have played an intriguing and complex role in reinforcing and reproducing racial inequality. For example, imported Chinese labor was used to threaten black labor in the agricultural South in the latter part of the ...

economic imbalances and social disparities are a common feature of developmenteconomies, particularly those which have historical antecedents of colonial rule. the study ofregional imbalances is given focus especially to southeast asian countries owing to its renewedimportance in the global order. post independent india had to tackle with several problems at theoutset, regional imbalance and ec...

Using a new firm-level dataset on private and listed firms from advanced economies emerging markets, we document four stylized facts market power in global markets. First, competition has declined, but only modestly—average markups increased 1.22 to 1.29 (6%) during 2000–2015, especially services economies. Second, the of are higher experienced stronger increases than those firms. Third, markup...

At RoboCup, teams of autonomous robots or software softbots compete in simulated soccer matches to demonstrate cooperative robotics techniques in a very difficult, real-time, noisy environment. At the IJCAI/RoboCup97 softbot competition, all entries but ours used human-crafted cooperative decision-making behaviors. We instead entered a softbot team whose high-level decision making behaviors had...