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Who Matters Most? The Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling

Gang, Ira N. - 1996

This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...

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The Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997

Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000

East Germany underwent rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel Data 1990-1997 to study wage...

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Where to work?: The role of the household in explaining gender differences in labour market outcomes

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2006

With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the...

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Unemployment and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union: A Statistical Analysis

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco - 1996

increased visibility of immigrants in Europe, not the rise of unemployment rates per se, that has been associated with recent …

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-su - 2002

This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local … likelihood of employment in Europe as a function of a set of explanatory variables that include immigrant concentration in local … foreigners in a local labor market and the likelihood of employment among European citizens residing in that labor market. The …

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