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Making Jobs Good
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
(over and above Social Security), a large increase in college attainment, a large increase in unionization, and gender pay …
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Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
Over the past three decades, the “human capital” of the employed black workforce has increased enormously. In 1979, only one-in-ten (10.4 percent) black workers had a four-year college degree or more. By 2011, more than one in four (26.2 percent) had a college education or more. Over the...
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Incorporating changes in race, gender, and academic field at colleges and universities : a comment on "The ebbing tide: how will higher education adapt to demographic change?"
Antman, Francisca M. - 2024
education: college major choice and demographic diversity, including the race/ethnicity, and gender of students. More broadly …
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Joint titling in rural Peru : impact on women’s participation in household decision-making
Wiig, Henrik - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 52 (2013), pp. 104-119
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Choice without consciousness : women's participation in household decisions and gender equality in children's education
Saleemi, Sundus; Kofol, Chiara - 2020
that in households where women participate in children's education decisions and where women are aware of gender equality … of women's empowerment and to understanding of the mechanisms to achieve gender equality in education. …In this paper, we test if households where women participate in decisions regarding children's education and allocation …
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Gender, the status of women, and family structure in Malaysia
Hirschman, Charles - In: Malaysian journal of economic studies 53 (2016) 1, pp. 33-50
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"An opportunity for other men and a threat to other women" : workplace harassment at the intersection of marital status and gender in Sri Lanka
Adikaram, Arosha S. - In: Human resource development international : enhancing … 21 (2018) 3, pp. 186-211
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2017
reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more … countries have lower values of the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates …
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Birth order, gender, and the parental investment gap among children
Sakata, Kei; McKenzie, Colin; Kureishi, Wataru; … - 2018
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The betrayed generation? : intra-household transfers and retirement behavior in South Korea
Kim, Kyeongkuk; Lee, Sang-hyop; Halliday, Timothy - 2018
We consider the nexus of intra-household transfers, the sex composition of the sibship, and parental retirement behavior in Korea. We provide evidence that the cost of raising sons is higher than it is for daughters in Korea. Thus, in the absence of sufficient transfers from adult sons to...
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