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Starts out with a survey of various formal theories that have focused on discrimination in the labor market. Argues that Becker’s traditional taste for discrimination model, the various statistical discrimination models and the new cultural communication cost models ultimately yield...
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inequality is disappearing in residential credit markets. These results suggest that for African Americans and Latinos, racial …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to take a close look at factors that influence the choice and quality of healthcare received by ailing and elderly people in rural north India. The author is primarily interested in seeing what role is played by the presence of sons in the family,...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of income shocks on household real consumption expenditure, taking into account the various informal coping strategies adopted by the households. Using Nigerian Household Panel Survey data for the year 2010/2011 and 2012/2013...
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– When a religious denomination puts a strong emphasis on children’s education, the rulers who back religion, may encourage … the diffusion of education among the followers of that denomination. Conversely secular rulers may face a religion that … they consider a force opposing modernization and may develop a secular system promoting the diffusion of education. In both …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to take a close look at factors that influence the choice and quality of healthcare received by ailing and elderly people in rural north India. The author is primarily interested in seeing what role is played by the presence of sons in the family,...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the incidence of public education subsidies in Ghana. Since the late … 1990s, Ghana’s government has increasingly recognized human capital as key to alleviating poverty and income inequality …, causing dramatic increases of government expenditures to the education sector. At the same time user fees have been introduced …
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States that community development has been promoted as a process, a method, a programme, a movement and a paradigm, but … most effective in actually doing community development? Posits that the main determinants of what is done in society today …, a potential role for the university as a mediating structure in community development.  …
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US public education is a powerful promoter of the growth of earnings inequality and racial discrimination. Examines the …US public education is dominated by a win‐lose competitive model. While this model has been relatively successful in …
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