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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get …, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor work …
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The demographic transition is perhaps the most important event to occur in human affairs during the last 250 years, since the time of the enlightenment. It started in the countries of north-western Europe, and it has gone on to affect the rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the...
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child. By setting standards in health care; education; and legal, civil and social services, it tried to protect the basic …
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Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...
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with education at secondary or tertiary level is one way to go. This paper deals with, why Eritrean women are entering into … second, there is a shortage of male breadwinners. The third, growing education levels increase their earning potential. …
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This paper explores the extent to which differences in the resources allocated to education explain differences in … access and performance and public education expenditure is weak.. The paper suggests that levels of household spending, the … effectiveness of the public expenditure management system and the composition of public education spending are important factors …
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Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
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This paper investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by men and women contribute to the gender pay gap in Italy. Using micro-data from the “Survey of Household Income and Wealth” collected by Bank of Italy (1995-2006), we studied the evolution of the...
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Standard analysis of racial inequality incorporates racial classification as an exogenous binary variable. This approach obfuscates the importance of racial self-identity and clouds our ability to understand the relative importance of unobserved productivity-linked attributes versus market...
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This paper contrasts the explanatory power of the mono-cultural and diversity models of racial disparity. The mono-cultural model ignores nativity and ethnic differences among African Americans. The diversity model assumes that culture affects both intra- and interracial labor market disparity....
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