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. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This … of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth … paradox is due to members of Hui households earning more income outside the farm than members of Han households. Particularly …
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of the impact of the presence of Wal-Mart on black-white income and unemployment differentials. It is posited that Wal … demographic and economic variables that affect unemployment and income, the impact of a Wal-Mart is tested by using a dummy …
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north- and particularly the southwest. Low village income results in long-distance migration for many ethnic minorities, but …This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …
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Using a 2006 household survey from the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in China, this paper examines two aspects of the … correlation between ethnicity and income: namely, differences in the returns to human capital and the effects of ethnicity- and … (i.e. local employment or migration), whereas no ethnic disparity is found for the urban workforce. We also find that …
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Using a 2006 household survey from the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in China, this paper examines two aspects of the … correlation between ethnicity and income: namely, differences in the returns to human capital and the effects of ethnicity- and … (i.e. local employment or migration), whereas no ethnic disparity is found for the urban workforce. We also find that …
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minority concentration or poverty neighbourhood, they are more likely to end up in another minority concentration or poverty …
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The attitudes of ethnic majority populations towards other communities is a potentially important determinant of social exclusion and of the welfare of ethnic minorities. The suggestion that negative attitudes towards minorities may be affected by the ethnic composition of the locality in which...
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Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...
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This paper explores the relationship between residential proximity of individuals from the same ethnic group and the probability of finding a job through social networks, relative to other search methods. Using individual-level data from the UK Labour Force survey and spatial statistics...
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Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are … education and income is weaker. We also report that Hui parents spend fewer resources on education than Han parents and that …
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