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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country
Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...
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The Puzzle of Marriage Migration in India
Fulford, Scott Lansing - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2012
Two thirds of all Indian women have migrated for marriage, around 300 million women, but little is known about this … its causes. Contrary to conventional wisdom, marriage migration does not contribute to risk sharing. Nor is it driven by …
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Struggling to Understand the Stock Market
Hall, Robert E. - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 2, pp. 1-11
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of Jewish workers in Israel over the 13-year time period, 1983-1995. Work histories are constructed from a new joint database, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995...
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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination and Selectivity
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The purpose of this Paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labour market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...
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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of Jewish workers in Israel over the 13-year time period, 1983-95. Work histories are constructed from a new joint database, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136575
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Assortative Mating by Ethnic Background and Education in Sweden: The Role of Parental Composition on Partner Choice
Aycan, Çelikaksoy; Lena, Nekby; Saman, Rashid - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2009
Assortative mating patterns in two dimensions namely, ethnic background and education are analysed in this paper for individuals with an immigrant background living in Sweden. We focus on the role of individual and spousal characteristics as well as the role of parental composition on...
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Does a Mature AIDS Epidemic Threaten Growth?
Cuesta, José A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper models the impact on economic growth of HIV/AIDS when the epidemic is in a mature phase, in contrast with previous studies focused on periods of expansion, as in African countries. Simulations for Honduras, the epicenter of the epidemic in Central America, show that AIDS is not likely...
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Demographics of the Gay and Lesbian Population in the United States: Evidence from Available Systematic Data Sources
Black, Dan; Gates, Gary; Sanders, Seth; Taylor, Lowell - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 1999
There are thousands of studies on the gay and lesbian population. Because of the difficulty of sampling this population, most studies have used "convenience samples" for analysis. Until recently, it was extremely rare that survey data on gays and lesbians were collected from a known sampling...
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