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Child Labour and Child Schooling in South Asia: A Cross Country Study of their Determinants

Ray, Ranjan - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2001

This study uses Nepalese data to estimate the impact of individual, household and cluster/community level variables on child labour and child schooling. The principal estimates are, then, compared with those from Bangladesh and Pakistan. The exercise is designed to identify effective policy...

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Daughters and Left-Wing Voting

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...

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Inclusive recruitment? : hiring discrimination against older workers

Drydakis, Nick; MacDonald, Peter; Bozani, Vasiliki; … - 2017

for the period 2013-2015 in the UK, suggests that age discrimination persists at alarming levels. It shows that when two … constraints for blue-collar jobs than white-collar/pink-collar jobs, and that women face greater age discrimination than men … written commitments to equal opportunities. The design of the study suggests that discrimination results from distaste for …

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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...

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A counterfactual decomposition analysis of immigrants-natives earnings in Malaysia

Anees, Muhammad; Sajjad, Muhammad; Ahmed, Ishfaq - 2011

Economics of discrimination has been the topic of interest of many in the last decade or two. Human capital theory … immigrants-natives wage gap to find the extent of potential discrimination against the immigrants. Using employees' level data …

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Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap

Polachek, Solomon W. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Despite equal pay legislation dating back 50 years, American women still earn 22% less than their male counterparts. In the UK, with its Equal Pay Act of 1970, and France, which legislated in 1972, the gap is 21% and 17% respectively, and in Australia it remains around 17%. Thus, the gender pay...

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Correspondence testing studies

Rooth, Dan-Olof - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Anti-discrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory … practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in …

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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004

This paper explores secular changes in women?s pay relative to men?s pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...

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Crossing the Tracks? : More on Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in Great Britain

Jones, Melanie K.; Latreille, Paul L.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2004

A small number of recent empirical studies for several countries has reported the intriguing finding that the ?advantage? previously enjoyed by men in respect of training incidence and reported in earlier work in the literature has been reversed. The present paper explores the sources of the...

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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample

Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

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