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Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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Remember When It Rained: The Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment

Zimmermann, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...

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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation during India's Economic Boom

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

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Education Policies and Practices: What Have We Learnt and the Road Ahead for Bihar

Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates …

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The Relation between Child Labour and Mothers’ Work: The Case of India

Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …

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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …

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