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Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration? : Evidence from Nigeria

Okunogbe, Oyebola Motunrayo - 2018

This paper examines how temporary migration to a different ethnic region affects national integration. It uses original survey data from individuals who were randomly exposed to different ethnic regions of Nigeria during their mandatory national service, the largest program of its kind in...

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Gender, ethnicity, and cumulative disadvantage in education outcomes

Taş, Emcet O.; Reimão, Maira Emy; Orlando, Maria Beatriz - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 64 (2014), pp. 538-553

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Gender, Ethnicity and Cumulative Disadvantage in Education : Evidence from Latin American and African Censuses

Taş, Emcet O. - 2017

This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia … gender and ethnicity confers cumulative disadvantage for minority groups, especially in Latin America. The paper discusses … estimation method analogous to difference-in-differences, the paper finds that gender-based differences in literacy, primary …

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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?

Schurer, Stefanie - 2008

The second and third generation of immigrants have been the centre of a lively debate about the economic integration of immigrants into their host societies, but there is little empirical evidence on the German case. In this study I comprehensively portray the labour market outcomes of second...

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Migration and female genital mutilation

Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

More than 100 million women and girls in the world have had their genitals cut for cultural, religious, or other non-medical reasons. Even though international organizations condemn female genital mutilation (FGM), or cutting, as a violation of human rights, and most nations have banned it, it...

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Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2007

This paper analyzes whether immigrant families facing credit constraints adopt a family investment strategy wherein,upon arrival,an immigrant spouse invests in host country-specific human capital while the other partner works to finance the family's current consumption. Using data for West...

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Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - 2007

This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany.We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and...

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Mixed records, complexity, and ethnic voting in African elections

Ferree, Karen E.; Gibson, Clark C.; Long, James D. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 141 (2021), pp. 1-10

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Ethnicity is not public service destiny : the political logic of service distribution in South Africa

Porten, John; Rhee, Inbok; Gibson, Clark C. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 159 (2022), pp. 1-18

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Aid or exploitation? : food-for-work, cash-for-work, and the production of "beneficiary-workers" in Ethiopia and Haiti

Carruth, Lauren; Freeman, Scott - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 140 (2021), pp. 1-11

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