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Poverty and economic development of Kenya
Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The economy of Kenya has been continued to be the largest in the East African region and third largest in Sub-Saharan Africa after South Africa and Nigeria respectively. At present Kenya is one of the most highly literate countries in sub-Saharan Africa. But more than 60% people of Kenya live...
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Dietary quality and tree cover in Africa
Ickowitz, Amy; Powell, Bronwen; Salim, Mohammad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000 children from 21 African countries and Global Land Cover Facility tree …
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Education, race and revealed attitudes towards homosexual couples
Leguizamon, Sebastian; Leguizamon, Susane; Christafore, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We examine the varying influence of the presence of homosexual couples on average home prices with different compositions of educational attainment and race. We find that a higher number of homosexuals in relatively higher educated areas is associated with higher average prices and lower average...
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Sexual orientation and social exclusion in Italy
Botti, Fabrizio; D'Ippoliti, Carlo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This work explores the role of discrimination in shaping individuals’ lives and opportunities, with specific respect to sexual orientation. The role of sexual orientation in explaining earning differences has been increasingly emphasized in empirical literature on discrimination mainly as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259685
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Earnings differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals and the effects of anti-discriminatory laws: equal but still unmarried
Christafore, David; Leguizamon, Sebastian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Anti-discrimination laws on the basis of sexual orientation have been adopted by many states to counteract perceived discrimination in the labor market. We �find that relative to married heterosexual men, homosexual men earn less and anti-discriminatory laws, over time, partially lessen this...
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The Labor Supply and Tax Revenue Consequences of Federal Same-Sex Marriage Legalization
Stevenson, Adam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The issue of same-sex marriage legalization is increasingly part of the national political dialogue. This legalization would have a number of economic impacts, one of the most direct being a change in income tax payments, through the so-called marriage penalty. I estimate the effects of same-sex...
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Sexual orientation and wage discrimination in France: the hidden side of the rainbow
LAURENT, THIERRY; MIHOUBI, FERHAT - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article is the first study to present an econometric evaluation of wage discrimination based on sexual orientation in the French labor market. Having identified same-sex couples using the French Employment Survey, we estimate the wage gap related to sexual orientation in the private and...
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Ethnicity, Confession and Intercultural Dialogue at the European Union’s East Border
Brie, Mircea; Horga, Ioan; Şipoş, Sorin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
the Curricula of European Studies ; MINORITY AND MAJORITY IN THE EASTERN EUROPEAN AREA Victoria BEVZIUC Electoral Systems …-Financial Crisis ; Yuriy YURIYCHUK Ukrainian Minority in Romania: Problems of National Identity Preserving , Sonia CATRINA Identity … Perceptions and Buildings of the Hungarian Minority in Relationship with the Romanian Majority Identifications ; Gheorghe …
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Interculturality and ethnodiversity in post-comunist Romania
Brie, Mircea; Pop, Cosmin Adrian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The forms of inclusion required by the goal of accommodating ethno-diversity, although varied, often reproduce situations of democratic deficit generated by the assimilating character of implemented policies. Despite the dissolution of the communist regime and the building of a new Romania under...
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FOOD Insecurity and Stochastic Aspects of Poverty
Anderson, Jock; Roumasset, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
Most works on food security have a macroeconomic orientation, whereas most discussions of famine are rather microeconomic. The intention here is to seek a more unified approach to the economic issues in food insecurity among low-income rural households.
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