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The political economy of women's empowerment policies in India : understanding it through the beginning and end of the Mahila Samakhya programme

Jha, Jyotsna; Menon, Niveditha; Ghatak, Neha - 2022

This paper analyses the political economy of women's-empowerment-related policymaking in India through a re-examination of the context of both the genesis and closure of a major programme, Mahila Samakhya. Mahila Samakhya, which embodied feminist philosophy and pedagogy, started in 1987 with the...

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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? : evidence from a top university in Brazil

Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2021

students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …

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South African population projection and household survey sample weight recalibration

Machemedze, Takwanisa; Kerr, Andrew; Dorrington, Rob - 2020

The existing sources of demographic data for South Africa have different strengths and limitations that make them inadequate for calibration of sample weights in post-apartheid South African household surveys. The official mid-year population estimates produced by Statistics South Africa do not...

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Anti-discrimination measures in education : a comparative policy analysis

Lenhardt, Amanda; Page, Ella; Sarwar, Moizza Binat; … - 2017

Efforts to tackle discrimination in access to basic services have shown mixed results in different country settings …. This study examines the positive and negative outcomes attributed to anti-discrimination measures adopted in different … country contexts and analyses the factors contributing to these outcomes, with a specific focus on anti-discrimination …

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Economic integration of Afghan refugees in the US, 1980-2015

Stempel, Carl; Alemi, Qais - 2018

Using 1990 5% Census and American Community Survey data, we examine the economic integration of Afghan refugees to the US, focusing on employment rates and income levels. First-wave Afghan refugees (those arriving 1980-90) have made significant income and employment gains, while poverty rates...

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Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies

Clark, Gregory - 2020

In societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile and India. These surname estimates have the...

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Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration : national and subnational influences

Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2019

Across the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and 'host-country' populations. What factors contribute to such variation? What policies and programmes facilitate 'better' economic integration? This paper, and the broader collection of studies that it...

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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., III.; Zhou, Min - 2018

In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group in a host country. We approach this case in three parts. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic...

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Invisible, successful, and divided : Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970s

Bösch, Frank; Su, Phi Hong - 2018

Until the 1970s, only 1000 Vietnamese lived in West and East Germany, most of them international students. West Germany, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around 35,000 "boat people" from Viet Nam and other countries...

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Settlement and labour force outcomes for Afghan immigrants and their children in Canada

Pendakur, Ravi - 2017

discrimination. Using data from Canada's 2011 National Household Survey and 2009 Longitudinal Immigration Database, this paper adds …

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