the poverty levels of black and Hispanic women would be different if they were paid the same wages as white women with the … Hispanic women in the US. The first part examines 1990 and 2002, two years with very similar national unemployment levels, and … same characteristics. The results show that for the working poor black women the difference in poverty rates would be small …

In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … reasons why the returns on schooling are low and why they are higher for women in our context. In particular, the policy …