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Sometimes, Winners Lose: Economic Disparity and Indigenization in Kazakhstan

Gang, Ira N.; Schmillen, Achim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies – "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan – we investigate their impact on the comparative earnings of two...

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Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle

Biddle, Jeff E.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Women's relative earnings are harmed by...

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Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We …

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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close link between castes and occupations, especially in rural India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC)...

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Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) since independence were recommended for Other Backward Classes (OBC) by...

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Migration, Transfers and Child Labor

Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and...

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A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant...

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Migration and Culture

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

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Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...

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Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender … labour force participation decision and its gender gap. Using probit and decomposition analysis, our investigation shows that … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan …

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