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among ethnic Turkish children as well as ethnic Arabic and Kurdish children. However, the gender gap among ethnic Kurdish … of the population of 8- to 15-year-old children belong to ethnic minority groups. Yet, there exists no study that … striking differences across ethnic groups. The results show that regional and family level characteristics can fully account …
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growing gap. Most of this sorting is due to the initial choice in which program type to apply to. No gender differences arise …
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Strong son preference in developing countries often motivates parents to undertake sex selection at birth, infanticide … whether such attitudes also lead to gender discrimination in primary education. While there is a vast literature on inter …-household gender discrimination in education, studies of discrimination between siblings is comparatively rare. This paper asks the …
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Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …
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educational gap for most subgroups—in particular, the gender gap in rural areas, the ethnic gap among men in both urban and rural … areas, and the ethnic gap among women in urban areas; at the same time, it increases the gender gap in urban areas as well …
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Gender disparities in education raise many questions for governments and civil societies. There are many factors that … contribute to the gender gap in education. In Eritrea, gender disparities persist in the enrolment rates between boys and girls … at all levels. Gender inequality has become a major issue in Eritrea in the recent years. This paper discusses …
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relations with supervisors and satisfaction with relations with coworkers. Also the connection of gender and level of education …
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We use recent German survey data for over three decades to analyze long-run trends in occupational segregation. Segregation declines for both women and foreigners in Germany. However, using different ISCO classifications in given years, segregation tends to be a rather stable phenomenon.
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The article focuses on the conditional relationship between various human capital proxies and the size of potential “O-Ring” or “Cobb-Douglas” sectors. We find that that years of schooling are a robust negative predictor of the size of the informal sector, conditioned on national average...
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