Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 136
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260006
Cover Image
Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020
their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we … consequence of reducing their well-being, since identity-concerned parents will constrain their daughter's choices. The model can … self-esteem for immigrant girls. This is especially true for Muslims, where traditional cultural identity is particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179844
Cover Image
The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on Syrians’ friendship links to Germans, their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266645
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484505
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477348
Cover Image
How status inequality between ethnic groups affects public goods provision : experimental evidence on caste and tolerance for teacher absenteeism in India
Singh, Prerna; Spears, Dean - 2017
This article contributes to the growing scholarship on how ethnic inequality can dampen the provision of public goods and services. On the one hand, it pushes beyond purely economic inequality to include status inequality between population groups. On other hand, it moves away from the provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659597
Cover Image
Horizontal inequality as a dependent variable
Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018
A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an independent causal variable, rather than an outcome of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874059
Cover Image
Horizontal inequality and data challenges
Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018
Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846201
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491825
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491845