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.e. when women or men are predominantly segregated into low-paying jobs. For this, we propose to use concentration curves and …
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gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian … gender segregation and stratification, with women and men entering occupations previously dominated by the other gender … or women's overrepresentation in low-paying jobs, compared with men. They do, however, partially explain their …
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show that cognitive attainment as measured by reading and numeracy seems to confer different benefits on women and men …
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Tanzania. Our findings indicate that, compared to men, women are less likely to participate in the labour market and less …. However, after accounting for selection into labour force participation, the existing gender bias is narrowed for women with … wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban …
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employment gender gap over time to the disadvantage of young women. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of our data, we apply two …-driven individual-level fixed-effects LASSO approach. Both analyses reveal that young women face a significant trade-off between work …
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capital characteristics, and is not declining over time. This implies that wage-employed women in South Africa have better …
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conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at … expanding women´s education and facilitating the access of married women to the emerging labour market as the most effective … ways of achieving a more inclusive growth path that does not leave women behind. …
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The relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention has been paid to 'vertical' than to 'horizontal' inequality. This paper focuses on mobility and horizontal inequality between ethnic, racial, and culturally-defined groups. Not...
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Students' expectations about their future wages are established in the literature as relevant determinants of the choices made for education progression and, at the university level, for the area and course to be studied. In this paper, the first comparable analysis in sub-Saharan Africa, we...
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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 reducing inequality. We present a machine-learning...
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