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Horizontal inequality, COVID-19, and lockdown readiness: Evidence from India
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Kundu, Anustup - 2020
A growing body of research shows that COVID-19 both reflects and exacerbates existing inequalities. However, there are significant gaps in this research area with respect to 'horizontal' or group-based inequalities in Global South countries. Lack of group-disaggregated data often contributes. In...
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Affirmative action around the world: Insights from a new dataset
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Schotte, Simone; Kim, Min J. - 2023
Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach for addressing group-based inequalities along ethnic, religious, and racial lines (e.g. horizontal inequalities). It is adopted in dozens of countries around the world in...
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Inequality of opportunities among ethnic groups in the Philippines
Reyes, Celia M.; Mina, Christian D.; Asis, Ronina D. - 2017
This paper contributes to the scant body of literature on inequalities among and within ethnic groups in the Philippines by examining both the vertical and horizontal measures in terms of opportunities in accessing basic services such as education, electricity, safe water, and sanitation. The...
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Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility: The case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States
Bankston, Carl L.; Zhou, Min - 2018
among Vietnamese refugees using American Community Survey data from 1980 to 2015 and survey data. We examine how this ethnic …, occupation, and income. Third, we seek to explain what enables Vietnamese refugees and their children to overcome initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943821
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Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India
Kumar, Hemanshu; Somanathan, Rohini - 2016
Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, and the remainder of the population. We contribute to the literature on horizontal inequalities in India by looking within these...
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Why does caste still influence access to agricultural credit?
Kumar, Sunil Mitra - 2016
In India, caste shapes access to a variety of resources and outcomes mainly through its influence on inter-generational prosperity, but also the linked phenomenon of discrimination. This paper examines whether caste-based differences in access to formal agricultural loans reflect discrimination...
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Securitized reception: Revisiting contexts confronting Afghan and Vietnamese forced migrants
Su, Phi Hong; Hakimi, Hameed - 2021
In a 2017 UNU-WIDER project, 'Forced migration and inequality', one of us collaborated on a comparison of Afghan and Vietnamese refugee resettlement across four Western countries. In the light of the Taliban return to power in August 2021, we revisit the contributions of the Journal of Ethnic...
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Invisible, successful, and divided Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970s
Bösch, Frank; Su, Phi Hong - 2018
, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around … offers a strategic case for understanding factors that shaped the arrival and resettlement experiences of Vietnamese refugees … not be uniformly positive for immigrants and refugees to have an integration experience deemed successful. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943822
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Horizontal inequality, status optimization, and interethnic marriage in a conflict-affected society
McDoom, Omar Shahabudin - 2016
Although several theories of interethnic conflict emphasize ties across group boundaries as conducive to ethnic coexistence, little is known about how such ties are formed. Given their integrative potential, I examine the establishment of cross-ethnic marital ties in a deeply divided society and...
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The simple analytics of elite behaviour under limited state capacity
Bourguignon, Franҫ Verdier, Thierry - 2010
This paper discusses the issue of taxation and redistribution in economies dominated by Elites with limited state capacity. Within a simple aggregate framework, we discuss the political economy incentives of Elites to tax, redistribute and increase state capacity. In particular, the analysis...
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