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Programme-135: addressing poverty and inequality in Viet Nam
Tung Duc Phung; Thanh Minh Pham - 2022
Viet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities and the ethnic majority do not benefit equally from the national economic progress. The proportion of poor households that are ethnic minority-headed soared from 18 per cent in...
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Gender and ethnicity : married immigrants in Britain
Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - 2005
In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign-born females who belong to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign-born white females and their husbands. We compare...
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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence
Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts? the number of individuals of the same ethnicity?and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic group....
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Less restrictive birth control, less education? : evidence from ethnic minorities in China
Liu, Yishen; Pan, Yao - 2016
This paper investigates the net impact of birth control policy in China on educational attainment of the partially excluded ethnic minorities. Exploring county-level variation in the value of fines levied for unsanctioned births, we show that more stringent enforcement of the birth control...
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Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India
Kumar, Hemanshu; Somanathan, Rohini - 2016
Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, and the remainder of the population. We contribute to the literature on horizontal inequalities in India by looking within these...
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Ethnic and racial disparities in children's education : comparative evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Viet Nam
Arouri, Mohamed; BenYoussef, Adel; Nguyen, Cuong - 2016
We investigate whether there are racial and ethnic disparities in children's education in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Viet Nam. We find that in all the four countries, and especially in Viet Nam, children from small ethnic groups have lower education attainment and cognitive ability. The gap in...
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Poverty and ethnicity among black South Africans
Gradín, Carlos - 2014
This paper investigates inequalities across the major black ethnic groups in South Africa, accounting for 80 per cent of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and the Zulu with respect to the Sotho/Tswana. We also show...
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The conceptualization and measurement of ethnic and religious divisions : categorical, temporal, and spatial dimensions with evidence from Mindanao, the Philippines
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; McDoom, Omar - 2015
A large body of recent quantitative work on the 'diversity detriment' hypothesis finds that ethno-religious diversity is linked with a host of societal ills, implying in turn a strong challenge to multiculturalist theory and policies. Given the stakes, the appropriate conceptualization and...
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Self-assessed versus statistical evidence of labour market discrimination : the case of indigenous Australians
Duncan, Alan S.; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar - 2016
indigenous cultural identity. Our findings point at the potential significance of 'nonstatistical' evidence of discrimination …
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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants : Evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants' ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of … ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … principal component analysis, this paper proposes two richer measures of ethnic identity than the ones used in the literature …
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