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Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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Social Identity and Aspiration - Double Jeopardy or Intersectionality? Evidence from Rural India
Sarkar, Sudipa; Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Lyonette, Clare - 2020
) - have significantly lower income aspiration when compared to Other Backward Class (OBC) and Other Caste (OC) participants … their lower income aspiration levels, in comparison with all other groups. Thus, our results support the hypothesis of …
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Social Identity and STEM Choice: Evidence from Higher Secondary Schooling in India
Kumar, Anand; Sahoo, Soham - 2021
This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the higher secondary level of schooling in India. We analyze the choice of science stream that is a crucial determinant of subsequent science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...
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Remittances and Child Labor in Pakistan: A Tale of Complementarities
Bang, James; Mitra, Aniruddha; Abbas, Faisal - 2023
We investigate the impact of remittance income on the household decision to send a child to work. Using data from a … remittance income by employing statistical matching to construct counterfactuals that allow us to compare the occurrence in child …
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Career or flexible work arrangements? Gender differences in self-employment in a young market economy
Buttler, Dominik; Sierminska, Eva - 2019
We examine supply-side determinants of transition from the wage and salary sector to selfemployment of women and men living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under explored longitudinal survey -- Social Diagnosis – that contains rare indicators such as job...
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Transitioning towards more equality? Wealth gender differences and the changing role of explanatory factors over time
Sierminska, Eva; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Grabka, Markus M. - 2018
Germany over the period 2002-2012. In particular, we analyze the role of changes in labor supply, permanent income, portfolio … analyses, a diminishing role of permanent income is observed, due both to a reduction in the gender difference in permanent … income and in gender differences in its returns. Overall, the evidence points to more equal wealth accumulation both in terms …
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