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Patterns of educational attainment and employment of first and second generation immigrants in France

Hlaimi, Stéphane; Wolff, François Charles - HAL - 2007

groups depending on the parental origin country and child gender. We find a higher intergenerational correlation in education …

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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2011

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...

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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2011

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Female Access to Credit in France: How Microfinance Institutions Import Disparate Treatment from Banks

Cozarenco, Anastasia; Szafarz, Ariane - HAL - 2013

period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …

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Approved routes and alternative paths: the construction of women's rarity in large accounting firms. Evidence from the Big Four France

Lupu, Ioana - HAL - 2011

Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in …

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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2011

the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …

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Household Division of Labor : Is There Any Escape From Traditional Gender Roles ?

Rizavi, Sayyid Salman; Sofer, Catherine - HAL - 2010

female investment in career, and look into the possible effect on the gender division of labor, particularly the male share …

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Irreversibility of time, reversibility of choices ? The Life-Course foundations of the transitional labour markets approach

Anxo, Dominique; Erhel, Christine - HAL - 2006

) perspective. It provides some empirical evidence of the role played by age and gender in individuals' situation on the labour …, and their differentiation by age and gender. Second, it offers a conceptualization of time and irreversibility which helps …

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Sons as Widowhood Insurance: Evidence from Senegal

Lambert, Sylvie; Rossi, Pauline - HAL - 2014

Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that fertility choices are partly driven by women's needs for widowhood insurance. We use a duration model of birth intervals to show that women most exposed to the risk of widowhood intensify their fertility until...

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A Taxonomy of European Labour Markets Using Quality Indicators

Davoine, Lucie; Erhel, Christine; Guergoat-Larivière, … - HAL - 2008

The report proposes a critical approach of European job quality indicators. It relies on both theoreti-cal and empirical analysis, and shows the necessity to introduce complementary variables, such as wages, working conditions and training duration. Comparative results for the EU 27 confirm the...

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