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Social Determinants of Labor Market Status ofEthnic Minorities in Britain
Kahanec, Martin; Mendola, Mariapia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependenceon social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issueswith significant policy consequences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861430
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262486
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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development: growth dynamics with two elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005
entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267484
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The elite and the marginalised: an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2008
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 from the minority elite (i.e., elected women and low caste … education while presence of capitalist elite, as reflected in greater degree of industrialisation enhances it, even in poorer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268596
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Elite dominance and under-investment in mass education: disparity in the social development of the Indian states, 1960-92
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2007
elite dominance that discriminates against the minority groups of people and systematically under-invests in mass education …. We experiment with various indirect economic and political measures of elite dominance. Results based on the Indian state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269246
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Multidimensional measurement of richness: Theory and an application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269775
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Trust of second generation immigrants: Intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013
This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293233
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The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight control
Cawley, John H.; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie - 2013
We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control (i.e. weight loss or avoidance of weight gain). We utilize nationally representative data that provide the most direct evidence to date on this question: individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293239
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008
SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324272
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Medical marijuana laws and teen marijuana use
Anderson, D. Mark; Hansen, Benjamin; Rees, Daniel I. - 2012
While at least a dozen state legislatures are considering bills to allow the consumption of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the federal government has recently intensified its efforts to close medical marijuana dispensaries. Federal officials contend that the legalization of medical marijuana...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327243