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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2009
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I develop an empirical strategy that...
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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
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Raining stones? Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market
Antòn, José-Ignacio; de Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz; … - In: Estudios de Economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 53-86
migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …
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Les femmes dans l'aviation: Assurer des emplois de qualité et favoriser le recrutement et le maintien en poste
Seligson, David - 2024
sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046524
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Las mujeres y la aviación: Empleos de calidad, atracción y retención
Seligson, David - 2024
sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046578
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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Sociologia Ruralis 28 (1988) 2/3, pp. 161-175
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
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Vergleichsverbot? Bevölkerungsstatistiken und die Frage der Vergleichbarkeit in den deutschen Kolonien (1885–1914)
Renard, Léa - In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und … 73 (2021) Suppl 1, pp. 169-194
Der Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis von statistischen Klassifikationen und Vergleichen in deutschen Kolonialstatistiken zwischen 1885 und 1914 und geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung und welche Ausprägungen dem Vergleich in Bezug auf Raum und Bevölkerung in kolonialen Statistiken zukamen....
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Education and Labor Market Activity of Women: An Age-Group Specific Empirical Analysis
Münch, Claudia; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2009
We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
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Women's opportunities under different constellations of family policies in western countries: Inequality tradeoffs re-examined
Korpi, Walter; Ferrarini, Tommy; Englund, Stefan - 2010
Women's rising labor force participation since the 1960's was long seen as heralding decreasing gender inequalities …. According to influential social science writings this view has now to be revised; 'women friendly' policies bringing women into … the workforce are held to create major inequality tradeoffs between quantity and quality in women's jobs. Unintendedly …
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Wives' economic contribution to the household income in Japan with cross-national perspective
Shirahase, Sawako - 2003
-age population. Japan has been characterized by the least favorable work setting for women, as exemplified by the discontinuous … pattern of work among mothers, the large extent of wage gap between men and women, and the very low proportion of women … married women's labor force participation. Second, I will examine mothers' working pattern, especially focusing on the …
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