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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784106
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738882
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933836
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323509
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325706
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549123
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750579
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750980
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Cultural differences and board gender diversity
Carrasco, Amélia; Francoeur, Claude; Réal, Isabelle; … - HAL - 2012
As evidence of the continuing interest raised by "board gender diversity", major studies (Catalyst, 2008; World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899027
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New Evidence of Ethnic and Gender discriminations in the French Labor Market using experimental data: A ranking extension of correspondence testings
Duguet, Emmanuel; Parquet, Loïc Du; L'Horty, Yannick; … - HAL - 2012
offers in computing in order to measure gender and origin discrimination. We found that - out of 28 possible comparisons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899398