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sector with special reference to beedi rolling. In India Beedi making is an age old industry and one of the largest job … to deft fingers; yet significant gender bias exists. The job is mainly done by weaker economic class in the country who …
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This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India …
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concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China …We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …
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models on a sample of 391 individuals in Portugal, this study demonstrates that respondents' gender play a crucial role in …
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In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the decision to become self-employed to test for differences...
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