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Racial Inequality and Segregation Measures: Some Evidence from the 2000 Census

Somanathan, Rohini; Sethi, Rajiv - eSocialSciences - 2009

residential segregation. The authors adopt an approach to the decomposition of segregation measures that combines the method of … indirect standardization with the idea that some degree of segregation is the outcome of purely random processes. The authors … use the dissimilarity index as a measure of segregation and data on race and income from US metropolitan areas for 2000 …

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Aspirations, Segregation and Occupational Choice

Mookherjee, Dilip; Napel, Stefan; Ray, Debraj - eSocialSciences - 2008

, both with and without segregation, and studies the macroeconomic and welfare effects of segregation on aggregate economic …

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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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States Reorganisation: Contemporary Concerns

Pai, Sudha; Sarangi, Asha - eSocialSciences - 2009

Language alone can no longer be the basis for division of states. Issues such as size, governance, economic viability and recognition of new identities are equally important to consider the demands for reorganisation of states. Moreover, the social, economic and political context in which...

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Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption

Banerjee, Abhijit; Pande, Rohini - eSocialSciences - 2007

Increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized by incomplete policy commitment, then ethnicization reduces average winner quality for the pro-majority party with the opposite...

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Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and Informal Economy in India: Trends, Initiatives and Challenges

Dhanya M.B - eSocialSciences - 2013

This work examines the status of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW) in the informal economy in India and locates the gaps and challenges in ratifying the ILO Conventions 87, 98, 138 and 182. The study also tries to identify various gaps in the existing data base of the informal...

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Social Inclusion of Internal Migrants in India

United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF - eSocialSciences - 2013

Social Inclusion of Internal Migrants in India aims to provide an overview of existing innovative practices that … increase the inclusion of internal migrants in society and act as a living document that would inspire and assist professionals … and governments officials in their attempts to facilitate the social inclusion of migrants. Through this publication …

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Seize the Spotlight: A Case for Gulf Cooperation Council Engagement in Research on the Effects of Labor Migration

Clemens, Michael - eSocialSciences - 2013

Labor migration to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has massive effects on the GCC, the countries migrants come … from, and the migrants themselves and their families. Yet existing research on the effects of Gulf migration is marked by …

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Women's Migration, Urban Poverty and Child Health in Rajasthan

Kumar, Maya Unnithan; MCNAY, K; CASTALDO, A - eSocialSciences - 2014

with a fifth of the urban population living below the poverty line and in slums. Increasing numbers of poor migrants in …

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The Impact of NREGA on Rural-Urban Migration: Field survey of Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu

Jacob, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2013

Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work because they cannot survive on what they can earn in their own villages. Can NREGA be used to curb rural urban migration? [CCS Working Paper No. 202].

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