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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...
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Class origin, family culture, and intergenerational correlation of education in rural China
Satō, Hiroshi (contributor); Li, Shi (contributor) - 2007
"This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003460688
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Villages where China's ethnic minorities live
Gustafsson, Björn (contributor); Ding, Sai (contributor) - 2006
This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497602
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Health outcomes and socio-economic status among the elderly in China : evidence from the CHARLS pilot
Srauss, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Park, Albert; Shen, Yan; … - 2010
We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …
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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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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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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-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes (SCs) over the extent to which behavioural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955513
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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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The elite and the marginalised : an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha (contributor); Ghosh, Sugata (contributor) - 2008
In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...
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The construction of neighbourhoods and its relevance for the measurement of social and ethnic segregation : evidence from Denmark
Damm, Anna Piil (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we propose a model for constructing neighbourhoods based on geo-referenced data and administrative data. The 431,233 inhabited hectare cells in Denmark are clustered into 9,404 small and 2,296 large neighbourhoods, inhabited on average in 2004 by 572 and 2,343 persons respectively....
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