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Economist contributes to report on business startups

April 25, 2008

Entrepreneurial activity among women dropped sharply last year, while the rate of activity among men and immigrants surged, according to a national index developed by UCSC professor of economics Robert Fairlie, and published in a report by the Ewing Mario
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Economists evaluate impacts of Proposition 209

November 1, 2007

Eleven years after California voters banned the use of affirmative action in the state, two UCSC economists discuss the impacts of Proposition 209 on minority-owned firms.
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Digital divide leaving immigrants further behind, UC Santa Cruz study finds

September 25, 2006

The digital divide between immigrants and the native born is widening in the United States, with some immigrant groups less than half as likely to have computer access at home as nonimmigrants, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Only 36 percent of Latino immigrant youth have a…
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Kids with access to a home computer are more likely to graduate, digital divide study finds

October 19, 2005

Access to a home computer increases the likelihood that children will graduate from high school, but blacks and Latinos are much less likely to have a computer at home than are whites, according to a new study by a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, that also found the digital divide is even…

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