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distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence …
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When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by using convergence hypothesis. Earlier studies that examined regional disparities of development used per capita State Net Domestic Product (SNDP) as an important proxy for...
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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries, using a pseudo micro panel on 110’000 persons from the World Values Survey … information exchange, increases employment probabilities of women. However, when accounting for sub-national regional differences …) increases female employment in a cross-country fashion. …
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thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based on the following topics: a) The employment policy (Time regimes … gender and age regulation); d) Restructuring effects (policy on transfer of personnel, policy on redundancies, and …
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Globalization, liberalization, technological development, infrastructure development and WTO etc. are ‘contexts’, which have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India’s North Eastern Region. Women in agriculture in...
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professional employment advertisements posted on major Internet employment boards in China for positions such as engineers …We study gender discrimination in hiring markets by sending 19,130 fictitious matched resumes in response to … applicants. On one hand, this evidence supports the hypothesis that economic reform and the market economy may mitigate gender …
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This paper present an overview of the state of lifelong learning in Bulgaria from a gender perspective; reviews the … accordance with the European strategic objectives, including gender aspects. The analysis on the state and policies of the …
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