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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 …
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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market
Mosomi, Jacqueline - 2019
discrimination. …
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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/10011325714
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Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa's racial wage gap
Burger, Rulof; Jafta, Rachel; Fintel, Dieter von - 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 …
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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/10011477360
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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 …
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Discrimination, social capital, and financial constraints : the case of Viet Nam
Pham, Tho; Talavera, Oleksandr - 2017
provide evidence for discrimination against female-owned enterprises in the formal lending market. Specifically, female …. No discrimination in formal credit markets may arise from the preference for informal loans over formal loans - that is …
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Behind the numbers : exploring caste inequities in entrepreneurial success
Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2024
. Pervasive market and non-market discrimination against marginalized groups suggests that the significant caste disparities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014465261
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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...
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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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