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and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients …
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This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …
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and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients …
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and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate gender and race disparities in home ownership, value, and equity. These … value or home equity. Once households have entered the housing market, differences across gender, race and family type are … associated with differences that are larger than those based solely on gender and are as large as those associated solely with …
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This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … likely to obtain better test scores in Mathematics, when the share of teachers of the same gender as the student increases … teachers increases. The positive same-gender effect on test scores is counteracted by a negative assessment effect. That is …
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of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic …
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such gender gaps have changed in recent years. METHODS: We use data from several surveys during the period 1997 to 2001 to …, but this gender gap in being online disappeared by 2000. However, once online, women remain less frequent and less intense … now, but gender differences in frequency and intensity of Internet usage remain. …
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The first Australian universities were established in the 1850s, well before the introduction of compulsory schooling. However it was not until the twentieth century that growing industrialisation, technological change and the development of the so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian surveys, supplemented with Estonian telephone...
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Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
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