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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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Inequality, inequality of opportunity, and growth: what are we talking about? Theory and empirical investigation in Brazil
Teyssier, Geoffrey - HAL - 2013
Building on the existing literature, a synthetic approach intended to ease the understanding of the notion of inequality of opportunity is developed. In turn, this paper tests a convincing hypothesis explaining the mixed evidence found by empirical studies regarding the instrumental effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821001
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Why is the gender wage gap in Japan so large compared with France? : a comparison based on decomposition analysis
Hori, Haruhiko; Nohara, Hiroatsu - HAL - 2006
markets in Japan and France. When it comes to the gender wage gaps, it is necessary to take the general structure of wages and … for the the gender wage gap differentials between the two countries. Factor decomposition analysis focusing on full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790464
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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