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Between 1940 and 1970 more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination. This...
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Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582281
In less developed countries the state does not extends its legality homogenously. A share of the population suffers its absence or its illegal presence. In this article we argue that such irregular state intervention has more negative consequences that previously thought. Individuals who suffer...
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and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …
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in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …-indigenous families follow decision rules more closely related to collective and bargaining behavior models. -- Bolivia ; culture …
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This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest …
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countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage …
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country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia "excels" in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence … across different ethnic groups. Using information from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Bolivia, we examine the … endogeneity problems. -- labor markets ; domestic violence ; Bolivia ; indigenous …
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-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting … delivery outcomes. -- Bolivia ; transparency ; accountability ; local-level monitoring ; bureaucratic delay …
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proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …
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