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Touch thee not : group conflict, caste power, and untouchability in rural India
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2018
We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two … its population share and land share, we find support for these hypotheses in data from the India Human Development Survey …
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The economic benefits of volunteering and social class
Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, John; Mantovan, Noemi - 2019
A theory that the economic benefits of volunteering are contingent on social class (as defined by similarities in labour market situation) is tested using seven waves of longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Study gathered between 1996 and 2008 and fixed-effects models. Volunteering...
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An Arab, an Asian, and a Black guy walk into a job interview : ethnic stigma in hiring after controlling for social class
Borm, Hannah Van; Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn - 2022
Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious job applications. Despite increasing efforts to discover why ethnic minorities experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not...
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Social class and undergraduate degree subject in the UK
Bratti, Massimiliano (contributor) - 2006
Although past research has found strong social class effects on the decision to undertake higher education in the UK, there is only sparse empirical work investigating social class influences on the choice of degree subject at the undergraduate level. Using Universities' Statistical Record data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278958
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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?
Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018
This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803329
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Occupational choice and the spirit of capitalism
Doepke, Matthias (contributor);  … - 2007
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values between a...
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Cohabitation and the uneven retreat from marriage in the US, 1950 - 2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains...
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The elite and the marginalised : an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha (contributor); Ghosh, Sugata (contributor) - 2008
-development spending ; India …
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Caste based discrimination : evidence and policy
Siddique, Zahra (contributor) - 2008
Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …
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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India …. -- India ; social groups ; inequality ; quantile regression decomposition …
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