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Education inequality: become better or worse?

Tan, Sui Chin; Ho, Chong Mun; Pang, Vincent - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Inequality measured by using Theil index, can be decomposed into between and within–groups. Normally, studies only focus on the inequality within-group due to high percentage of inequality within-group as compared to the between-group. Therefore, the conclusions that have been made in the past...

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Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after apartheid

Gradín Lago, Carlos Manuel - 2017

This paper investigates progress in reducing the high level of racial stratification of occupations after apartheid in …-paying jobs (compared with whites). Less than a third of segregation and about half of racial stratification in occupational … over time. Segregation and stratification, however, remain when blacks and whites with similar characteristics are compared. …

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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States

Gradín, Carlos - 2017

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of … workers' characteristics, showing that gender differences cannot explain the levels of segregation/stratification in any year …

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Public R&D Support and Firms’ Performance. A Panel Data Study

Raknerud, Arvid; Iancu, Diana-Cristina; Nilsen, Øivind A. - 2018

did not receive support using a combination of stratification and propensity score matching. Changes in performance …

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Impact of welfare sanctions on employment and benefit receipt: Considering top-up benefits and indirect sanctions

Hohenleitner, Ingrid; Hillmann, Katja - 2019

This comprehensive study on UB-II-sanctions in Germany, applying PSM, presents the ex-post effects of welfare sanctions on several employment states for diverse (sub-)groups of employable welfare recipients. Besides unemployed, we also regard employed, and indirectly affected household members....

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Mapping stratification: The industry-occupation space reveals the network structure of inequality

Hartmann, Dominik; Jara-Figueroa, Cristian; Kaltenberg, Mary - 2019

Social stratification is determined not only by income, education, race, and gender, but also by an individual's job … mapping social stratification. …

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From Elitist to Sustainable Earnings: Is there a group legitimacy in financial flows?

Charles, Aurelie; Vujić, Sunčica - 2018

Elite occupations are characterised by the magnitude of income accumulation which has been particularly exacerbated in the financialisation process. This paper however shows that the cumulative effects on group earnings is a pattern visible across the labour force. The case studies on the US and...

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Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance - A Panel Data Study

Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Iancu, Diana-Cristina - 2018

did not receive support using a combination of stratification and propensity score matching. Changes in performance …

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Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance: A Panel Data Study

Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Iancu, Diana-Cristina - 2018

did not receive support using a combination of stratification and propensity score matching. Changes in performance …

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The pursuit of balance in sequential randomized trials

Guiteras, Raymond P.; Levine, David I.; Polley, Thomas H. - In: Development Engineering 1 (2016), pp. 12-25

in advance, standard methods of stratification do not apply. We describe and assess the method of DA-optimal sequential … allocation (Atkinson, 1982) for balancing stratification covariates across treatment arms. We provide simulation evidence that …

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