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increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …; gender differences; and the poor education performance of men at the lower end of the education distribution. …
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We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. The standard glass ceiling hypothesis highlights the belief that the playing field...
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, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … hypotheses. First, there is no disparity in the income and returns to education benefits of the shift to democracy across gender … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …
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This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …
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explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the … household and to what extent taxes and benefits mitigate (or indeed exacerbate) any inequality of income between men and women …
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control for many individual/family specific attributes, such as age, gender, education, number of children, work and marital …
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This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on individual success in the labour market. We pay specific attention to the labour force experience of English-born residents in Scotland, whom the cross sectional literature...
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We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...
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This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
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This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard meta-analysis, we present a harmonized primary data analysis of programs that shape current policy. Our analysis is a...
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