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have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural … girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her …
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document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender norms, both vertically across generations of … education, they remain over-represented in STEM, but also differ significantly from other women by their specific avoidance of … study fields leading to "pink collar" jobs, such as education and social work. They also display a specific choice of work …
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have good access to water. Water engineering can thus contribute significantly to reducing gender education gaps in rural … girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her …
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generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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highly correlated with the level of education, especially for migrants. Although higher labor costs may have had a negative …
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We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a … Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self … this association, with compliance playing the larger role. Explicit gender requests account for over half of the gender …
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Recent decades have seen a surge in local interior immigration enforcement. In this paper we examine a little discussed, but potentially important, spillover effect of enforcement policies: changes in high-skilled citizen women's labor supply due to changes in the cost of outsourcing household...
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vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … constitutes a case in point. However, little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising …, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews …
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Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential life chances - who gets what and why - and migration is about improving life chances - getting more...
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In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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