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The present paper reports a study on the socio-economic determinants of completed fertility in Mexico. Special attention is given to how socio- economic factors such as religion and ethnic group affect the likelihood of transition from low to high order parities. This methodological approach...
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of the European population and the populations of various iwi can account for the differences in income distribution …
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This paper reports findings from a study of changes in Mâori income levels and income dispersion between 1997 and 2003 …. Data from Statistics New Zealand’s Income Survey are used to describe and evaluate the main changes in the Mâori income … working-aged Mâori. A parallel analysis of the main changes in the European/Pâkehâ income distribution is provided for …
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This paper uses census data to identify the main changes in the individual-level income distribution of working … labour market activity patterns on the Mâori income distribution. There was substantial real income growth at most points in … the income distribution, and particularly at points above the 30th percentile, but a decline in real incomes at the very …
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In this study we make an attempt to visualize the structure of the economy of Udalguri Subdivision of Assam, India. The structure of an economy comprises the characteristic features of and the interrelationships among its constituent parts and subsystems. These characteristic features and...
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.S. reservation economies to assess how the two aspects affect income. The results show that resources and resource productivity are … necessary but insufficient determinants of income in reservation economies. A key constraint is human capital; human capital is …
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superstructural effects of institutions on aggregate and average income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs). It finds … necessary but insufficient determinants of income for institutional reasons. Because of the apparent scarcity of physical …
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Many studies show that individuals from ethnic minority groups receive low levels of job-related training, raising the question of whether lower expected wage benefits contribute to this lack of training. In this paper, unit record data are used to examine the effect of job- related training on...
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This paper introduces a psychological notion of categorization into economics and derives its implications for economic decision making. We show, using a tractable model of social cognition, that a decision maker in (efficiently) assigning past experiences to categories, will sort experiences of...
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Emerging evidence shows a strong correlation between institutions and economic growth, and explains the recent research shift from focus on resources and resource productivity to institutions as determinants of economic growth. The positive correlation is read by some as indication that...
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