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The racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 4, pp. 581-595
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …
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Educational Inequality by Race in Brazil, 1982–2007: Structural Changes and Shifts in Racial Classification
Marteleto, Leticia - In: Demography 49 (2012) 1, pp. 337-358
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Are law degrees as valuable to minorities?
McIntyre, Frank; Simkovic, Michael - In: International review of law and economics 53 (2018), pp. 23-37
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How do the last five years measure up on levelling up?
Farquharson, Christine; Milsom, Luke; Tahir, Imran; … - 2024
Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...
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How do the last five years measure up on levelling up?
Farquharson, Christine; Milsom, Luke; Tahir, Imran; … - 2024
Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552650
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CRISIS, SOCIAL SECTOR AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN SOME SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES
Mukhopadhaya, Pundarik - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2002
countries: Singapore and Thailand. The economic crisis had interrupted three decades of steady growth that had been accompanied … by remarkable progress in poverty reduction and a betterment of social indicators like health and education. In … more acute in Thailand and with the wake of unemployment and decrease in real wages, income inequality increased both in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644834
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Equality of opportunity and other equity principles in the context of developing countries
Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005
I propose a personal reading of some theories of social justice at a moment when the issue of equality or equity appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality of opportunity principle. After having briefly...
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On the Substitutability between Equal Opportunities and Income Redistribution
Valentini, Enzo - Dipartimento di Studi Sullo Sviluppo Economico (DISSE), … - 2009
incomes inequality (Gini Index) is presented. This result is obtained including inequality of opportunities in the labor … universalistic redistribution (maximizing average utility) exists, which is increasing with respect to inequality of opportunities …. The subsequent empirical exercises offer a plausible measure of meritocracy, besides being a support for the validity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509382
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Equality of opportunity and other equity principles in the context of developing countries
Cogneau, Denis - DIAL - 2005
I propose a personal reading of some theories of social justice at a moment when the issue of equality or equity appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality of opportunity principle. After having briefly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416723
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The social preferences of democratically elected decision makers and the conflict between wealth generation and distribution
Gaudeul, Alexia; Keser, Claudia - 2017
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