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We study firms’ advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms’ underlying gender … preferences from firms’ propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job …
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Based on the last four rounds of NSS data the study explores some dimensions of women’s labour market participation across social groups. [CWDS Occasional Paper No.59]. URL:[http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPaper/OccasionalPaper59.pdf].
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gender discrimination and promote equality for working men and women through legislation and social and economic policies to … organizations across the globe. In Asia, mostly women continue to experience the greatest disadvantages resulting from gender … inequalities and entrenched discrimination in work and in life. The economic and social contributions made by women in the family …
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In this paper, a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts is illustrated. In India, exam ….Then there is a random assignment of child “characteristics†(age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to … to lose out the most due to discrimination. Interestingly, findings also suggest that the discrimination against low …
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In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for … education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences in returns to education in these …
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Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until it incorporates the gender component at …
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In this paper the author analyzes the pros and cons of combining data from different sources to revisit some explanatory problems. The problems discussed have risen from a theoretical and analytic gap between people’s outlooks and values on the one hand, and their social circumstances on...
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The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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This paper we make an attempt to understand and analyze the budget from a gender perspective. The paper looks into the … different areas of allocations, how far it is ‘pro woman’ budget or a ‘gender responsive’ budget and whether the budget …
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New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. [WOrking Paper No. 41]. URL:...
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