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This review article critically analyzes and synthesizes the academic literature on non standard work and its gender …, race and class dimensions. We argue that it is important and crucial to understand these dimensions of non standard work in …
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left acknowledges economic exploitation but insists on addressing it only within identity categories such as race, gender … construction more fluid than race, ethnicity, or caste and more fixed than occupation, religion, or party. Class is a product of … examines the social construction of class through the lens of gender and family. It examines the growing economic inequality …
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This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even … in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …
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poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …
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gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are … consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer …
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documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential … health, indeed, enough to reverse the SES gradient that is commonly observed. -- Religion ; caste ; gender ; child survival …
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documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …
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gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are … consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619789
documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210417
experiment, we ask recruiters to assess fictitious job applicants of various race-ethnicities but consistent social class. The … taste-based and statistical discrimination have offered. We find that different race-ethnicity groups are evaluated rather … race-ethnicity. …
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