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Women's empowerment across the life cycle and generations: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arestoff, Florence; Djemai, Elodie - DIAL - 2013

(english) Does female empowerment evolve over the life cycle, and has it changed across generations? We use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys covering a sample of about 191,000 adult women to evaluate the age, period and cohort effect regarding individual attitudes to marital...

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Intergenerational transmission of self-employed status in the informal sector: a constrained choice or better income prospects? Evidence from seven West-African countries

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - DIAL - 2011

Social reproduction is the highest for self-employed as shown by an extensive literature from developed and developing countries. Very few studies however document the reason for this high intergenerational correlation of the self-employed status. The rare studies that have been done concern the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368579

Inequality of opportunity on the urban labour market in West Africa

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - DIAL - 2010

different. In the first case, reducing inequality of opportunities means improving labour markets efficiency and in the second …

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Migrant network and immigrants’ occupational mismatch

Chort, Isabelle - DIAL - 2013

(english) This paper defines new measures of horizontal and vertical mismatch based on the discrepancies between the skill content of occupations in which individuals have a self-assessed productive advantage and that of their actual job. Based on these definitions, this paper provides the first...

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The Gender Wage Gap in France: the Role of Non-Cognitive Characteristics

Bensidoun, Isabelle; Trancart, Danièle - DIAL - 2015

(english) Differences between men and women in non-cognitive skills could be the reason why the gender gap closing didn’t improve since the middle of the nineties. To investigate this issue in the case of France we used the "Génération 1998 à 10 ans" database conducted by the Céreq. This...

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Aspiration failure: a poverty trap for indigenous children in Peru?

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure; Brandon, Fiorella Risso - DIAL - 2013

channel of inequality persistence between indigenous and non-indigenous people, but that aspiration failure do not takes the …

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Earnings inequalities and educational mobility in Brazil over two decades

Cogneau, Denis; Gignoux, Jérémie - DIAL - 2005

This paper studies the impact of changes in educational opportunities on various definitions of labour market inequalities in Brazil over two decades (1976-96). Using four editions of the nationally representative PNAD survey, we analyze the evolution of overall inequalities and inequalities of...

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L’évolution de la mobilité scolaire intergénérationnelle au Pérou depuis un siècle

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - DIAL - 2003

(English) Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the education system in Peru has known a considerable development. This suggests that in all probabilities opportunities for study should be on a more equal basis. In the present article, I set out to discover whether all social groups have...

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Perception de l’inégalité des chances et mobilités objective et subjective:une analyse à partir d’entretiens qualitatifs auprès de Liméniens

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - DIAL - 2005

on social justice; as according to several authors, the perception of inequality of opportunity strongly determines the … interviewees assess their mobility using a monetary criterion. In the third part, the perception of inequality of opportunity is …

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Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Five Countries of Africa

Cogneau, Denis; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - DIAL - 2008

This paper examines for the first time inequality of opportunity for income in Africa, by analyzing large …, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar and Uganda. We compute inequality of opportunity indexes in keeping with the main proposals in the … structure. Among our five countries, Ghana in 1988 has by far the lowest income inequality between individuals of different …

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