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Ethnic segregation in England’s schools
Burgess, Simon M.; Wilson, Deborah - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 inorder to contribute to the debate on the … of particular concern as scoring highly on both.Finally, we show that ethnic segregation is only weakly related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354049
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Measuring School Segregation
Frankel, David; Volij, Oscar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
districts.Properties of other school segregation indices are also discussed. In an empirical application,we document a weakening … of the effect of ethnicity on school assignmentfrom 1987/8 to 2007/8. We also show that segregation between districts …Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multigroup school segregationindices: the Atkinson Indices for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360707
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An Axiomatization of the Multigroup AtkinsonSegregation Indices
Frankel, David; Volij, Oscar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008
ethnicgroups symmetrically, that is invariant to population growth rates that differ amongethnic groups, that ranks school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360803
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Measuring Segregation
Frankel, David M.; Volij, Oscar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2007
We propose a set of axioms for the measurement of school-based segregation withany number of ethnic groups. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360828
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Conspicuous Consumption and Race:Evidence from South Africa
Kaus, Wolfhard - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
A century ago, Thorstein Veblen introduced socially contingent con-sumption into the economic literature. This paper complements the scarceempirical literature by testing his conjecture on South African householddata and nds that Black and Coloured households spend relatively moreon visible...
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Belfast City Report
Plöger, Jörg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
Europe is a continent of cities with a remarkable history of cultural inspiration, wealth creation, social and politicaldynamism. But in the late-20th century, many former industrial cities entered a period of steep decline, losingmost of their manufacturing jobs and many of their economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836921
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School Choice in German Primary Schools:How Binding are School Districts?
Riedel, Andrea; Schneider, Kerstin; Schuchart, Claudia; … - Universität <Wuppertal> / Fachbereich … - 2010
The paper analyzes school choice in primary schools in Germany. The data used isfrom Wuppertal, a major city in North … school that is not the assigned public school. Parents choose schools basedupon the achievement level and the socioeconomic … composition of the school, and uponthe distance between the school and their home. Compared to families from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354141
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Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation
Giuliano, Laura; Ransom, Michael R. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the UnitedStates, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition ofemployment at the firm’s 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects forseveral departments and job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360553
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages inRomania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equalopportunities and treatment for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861423
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SMALL WORLD NETWORKS WITH SEGREGATIONPATTERNS AND BROKERS
Gallo, Edoardo - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2010
high clustering coe±cient; (iii) segregation pat-terns; the presence of (iv) brokers and (v) hubs. (i) and (ii) de¯ne a … emergenceof segregation patterns. The results are robust to varying the number of cognizantagents and to increasing the knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870099