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An action plan to emplement World Bank's strategies.
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Based on detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pairwise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women declined dramatically in 1940-1980, decreased slightly in 1980-2000, and remained stagnant in...
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Based on harmonized and detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pair-wise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women dramatically declined from 1940 to 1980 (especially in the 1960s and 1970s), it...
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and different race/ethnic groups. The results showed that White men and women in states with higher levels of social …
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opportunity to observe how gender, race, and class power relations are enacted and reconstituted to shape health inequities. Using …
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subordinate in multiple stratification systems such as gender, race and class are at especially high risk. Multiple minority … that certain relational schemas are jointly shaped by gender, race, and class and help explain their anomalous effects on … self-salience helps explain the paradoxical patterns of mental health by gender, race, and social class. The findings …
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We examine how far fertility trends respond to family policies in OECD countries. In the light of the recent fertility rebound observed in several OECD countries, we empirically test the impact of different family policy settings on fertility, using data from 18 OECD countries that spans the...
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This paper analyzes gender differences in the investment activity of German small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs …
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This paper provides the first evidence on gender differences in investment financing, credit application and credit … probability that they apply for credit is on average lower. Yet, this gender difference in the probability of credit application … is only evident when considering firms with negative or neutral sales expectations. There is no significant gender …
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This paper analyses women’s economic participation (WEP) in Mexico. The hypothesis is that the regional disparities of women’s participation are based on education, industrialization, urbanization and other non-observed factors. The questions that this study addresses are: What regional...
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