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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J - eSocialSciences - 2012
Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is therefore important to analyze differences not just between the foreign-born and U.S-born, but also across...
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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - eSocialSciences - 2010
data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990â …
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A Study of Policies Related to Science Education for Diversity in India
Chunawala, Sugra; Natarajan, Chitra - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper presents the findings of a study concerning educational policies related to science education and diversity … ignore the issue of diversity, two manifestations are possible: diversity poses challenges to curricular and classroom …-economic diversity, gender and science education. In the Indian context attempts were made to understand existing educational policies …
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Exchange Rate Regimes and Macroeconomic Performance in South Asia
Goyal, Ashima - eSocialSciences - 2010
Stylized facts for South Asia show the dominance of supply shocks, amplified by macroeconomic policies and procyclical current accounts. Interest and exchange rate volatility rose initially on liberalization, but fell as markets deepened. A gradual middling through approach to openness and...
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Square Pegs in Round Slots: Dealing with Diversity in Law Schools
Arun, Chinmayi - eSocialSciences - 2006
There is a profile that law students are expected to fit – proficient in English, assertive, capable of dancing circles around most people in terms of playing on words or logical reasoning for instance. When people who do not fit the profile enter law school, they find themselves dealing...
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Social Capital, Diversity and (Economic) DEvelopment: Evidence from Indian IT Industry, Bangalore
Taube, Florian A. - eSocialSciences - 2006
that the open and cosmopolitan nature of Bangalore has contributed a large share to the existing diversity of the city …
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Participatory Equity, Identity, and Productivity Policy Implications for Promoting Development
Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper tries to advance the perspective that the poor and the marginalized in society lack a sense of “participatory equity,†by building a new model where a person’s community identity matters, ex post, in determining if he or she will be poor, even though (unlike in the...
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The Employment-Unemployment Situation in India in the Nineteen Nineties: Some Results from the NSS 55th Round Survey (July 1999-June 2000)
Sundaram, K. - eSocialSciences - 2010
The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has recently released the report containing key results of the NSS 55th Round Employment-Unemployment Survey covering the period July 1999 thru June 20001 .Being canvassed over a separate set of households, the results of the Employment-Unemployment...
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Employment and Poverty in India: 2000-2005
Sundaram, K. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper is principally focused on the changes in the size and structure of work force and the changes in labour productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a sharp acceleration in work force growth, and, on the...
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Non-equity Alliances and the Performance of Indian Software Firms
Siddharthan, N.S.; Nollen, Stanley - eSocialSciences - 2006
The Indian software industry has grown very rapidly for more than a decade. In this study we report the results of a multivariate statistical analysis of the determinants of sales revenue growth and profit margins of Indian software firms. Based on original firm-level survey data, our SUR...
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