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A league of their own: Female soccer, male legacy and women's empowerment

Cho, Seo-Young - 2013

This paper investigates whether male soccer tradition can predict the success of female soccer. Different from the existing literature, this paper utilizes panel data covering 175 countries during the 1991-2011 period, capturing country heterogeneity effects and time trends. An instrumental...

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Asylum migration to OECD countries: What are the motives and drivers of asylum migration and how strong are they?

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Cardozo, Adriana R.; … - 2022

In this study we analyse different motives for asylum, focussing on the relative strength of specific asylum reasons and concentrating on origin and destination countries of special relevance. To this end, we build a bilateral asylum migration model, use panel data techniques based on a panel of...

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Modeling for determinants of human trafficking

Cho, Seo-Young - 2012

a low level of gender equality and development may have constraining effects on human trafficking outflows, contrary to …

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#EleNão: Economic crisis, the political gender gap, and the election of Bolsonaro

Barros, Laura; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2019

differential effects of the recession by gender and race, we show that heterogeneity in exposure to the labor demand shock by the …

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Measuring a new aspect of ethnicity: The appropriate diversity index

Kolo, Philipp - 2012

Combined with the expansion of economic literature on the role of ethnicity, new indices were developed to do justice … approaches linking ethnicity to economic outcomes. …

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Questioning ethnic fragmentation's exogeneity: Drivers of changing ethnic boundaries

Kolo, Philipp - 2011

Ethnic fragmentation is a variable increasingly used in the economic literature to explain differences in economic development level, growth or the incidence of conflicts. Nearly all articles have in common that they treat ethnic fragmentation as a static, exogenous fact. Only recently some...

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Race discrimination or inequality of opportunities: the Brazilian case

Leite, Phillippe G. - 2005

Following the topics discussed by Campante et al (2004), this paper contributes to the literature of the Brazilian racial discrimination by isolating the effect of intergeneration transmission of schooling and the school's quality in the race discrimination effect. Instead of modelling just one...

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Between sticky floors and glass ceilings: The effect of trade liberalization on double discrimination in Brazil

Barros, Laura; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2020

This article investigates how trade liberalization affects gender and racial pay inequalities in the short run. Guided … by an intersectional perspective, we consider overlapping effects across gender, race, and wage levels. We exploit Brazil … the wage distribution, we find that liberalization reduced racial and gender discrimination at low wages, which mitigated …

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Migration and remittances in Haiti: Their welfare impact on poor and non-poor households

Cardozo, Adriana R.; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; … - 2019

The purpose of this study is to identify a person's likelihood of emigrating to another country and to identify a household's likelihood of receiving remittances. We also compute average treatment effects as well as the marginal impact of receiving remittances on household welfare, across...

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The impact of migration on wages in Costa Rica

Cardozo, Adriana R.; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2020

Costa Rica experienced in recent years increasing international migration from neighboring countries due to political, economic and social reasons. This paper is the first to disentangle the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Rican from the impact for already settled migrants. We...

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