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Social mobility and inequality between groups
Funjika, Patricia; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2020
groups in many societies. Group-based discrimination, among other factors, contributes. The paper further explores empirical …
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Social spending and aggregate welfare in developing and transition economies
Gebregziabher, Fiseha; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014
, education, and social protection) on two major indicators of aggregate welfare (the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420591
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Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment: Caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses
Deshpande, Ashwini; Sharma, Smriti - 2015
face greater discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418664
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Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality: Diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discrimination
D'Agostino, Giorgio; Giuli, Francesco; Lorusso, Marco; … - 2020
Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424109
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Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania
Opoku, Kwadwo; Mugizi, Francisco M. P.; Boahen, Emmanuel Adu - 2021
wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651170
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Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa's racial wage gap
Burger, Rulof; Jafta, Rachel; von Fintel, Dieter - 2016
Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532394
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Double jeopardy? Caste, affirmative action, and stigma
Deshpande, Ashwini - 2016
This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to delineate the social-psychological mechanisms of 'externalization' and 'internalization' to understand the possible consequences of stigma associated with caste-based affirmative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532400
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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market
Mosomi, Jacqueline - 2019
discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146506
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The wage-setting power of firms: Rent-sharing and monopsony in South Africa
Bassier, Ihsaan - 2019
Using administrative tax records from South Africa for the period 2011-14, I find that firm wage premia explain 25 per cent of the total wage variance, 60 per cent of the gender wage gap, and 40 per cent of the gap between workers in the middle and the bottom of the income distribution. Next, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146523
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Employment status and educational attainment among disabled Ghanaians
Afoakwah, Clifford; Dauda, Fatima - 2016
People with disabilities in Ghana and other developing economies are discriminated against in many fundamental elements of human empowerment such as education and employment. While some employers are unwilling to hire, the educational systems do not provide enabling environment for a good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532382