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Are caste categories misleading? The relationship between gender and jati in three Indian states

Joshi, Shareen; Kochhar, Nishtha; Rao, Vijayendra - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are grouped using conventional, government-defined categories of caste we find patterns that are consistent with existing literature: lower-caste women are more likely to...

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Insurance-markets Equilibrium with Sequential Non-convex Straight-time and Over-time Labor Supply

Vasilev, Aleksandar - In: Journal of Mathematical Economics and Finance 4 (2018) 2, pp. 7-26

This note describes the lottery - and insurance-market equilibrium in an economy with non-convex straight-time and overtime employment. In contrast to Hansen and Sargent (1988), the overtime-decision is a sequential one. This requires two separate insurance market to operate, one for...

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Gender and racial discrimination in hiring : a pseudo audit study for three selected occupations in metropolitan Lima

Moreno, Martin; Ñopo, Hugo; Saavedra, Jaime; Torero, Maximo - 2004

In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants. The adapted pseudo-audit...

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Candidate Quality

Takalo, Tuomas; Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....

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?Atypical Work? and Compensation

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2005

Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and NLSY for the better-known...

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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 period 1992 to 1995. Therefore, the IAB employment subsample is equipped with data of one percent of all employees … registered by the social insurance system within the given period of 21 years. This data has been stored into a file by the …, memory gaps). Nevertheless there are specific problems that appear as a result of the data generation process. In general …

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Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia

Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001

Georgia. It is based on both the official aggregate statistics and data from a representative household survey fielded in 1996 …

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Inequality and Income Distribution in Georgia

Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001

In the period of macroeconomic crisis in Georgia between 1991 and1994 the combination of hyperinflation, catastrophic output drop and weak governance, have led to a sharp rise in inequality among households. Sharp inequities have arisen not only between households, but also between regions. This...

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Living Standards and Economic Vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and 1994

Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001

outside Turkey to use household survey data from two nationally representative surveys conducted in 1987 and 1994 to get a … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for …

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Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition

Berger, Mark C.; Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2001

We use 1994-1998 data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to measure the incidence and determinants …

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