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Decomposing wage differentials between migrant workers and urban workers in urban China's labor markets

Lee, Leng - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 2, pp. 461-470

This paper looks at wage discrimination faced by China's rural–urban migrants. Using data from the China Urban Labour Survey, it uses standard wage decomposition techniques to measure the extent wage gaps between migrants and locals are attributable to migration. Because the survey covers five...

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The impact of the Bolsa Escola/Familia conditional cash transfer program on enrollment, dropout rates and grade promotion in Brazil

Glewwe, Paul; Kassouf, Ana Lucia - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 505-517

We examine the impact of Brazil's Bolsa Escola/Familia program on Brazilian children's education outcomes. Bolsa provides cash payments to poor households if their children (ages 6 to 15) are enrolled in school. Using school census data to compare changes in enrollment, dropping out and grade...

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Supply and quality choices in private child care markets: Evidence from São Paulo

Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julian - In: Journal of Development Economics 98 (2012) 2, pp. 242-255

Many developing countries have adopted the market approach for expanding the supply of child care, but little is known about the economic behavior of independent providers. Drawing on uniquely rich census data on child care providers from São Paulo, we document three main facts: (1) the stock...

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Intra-generational Social Mobility and Entrepreneurship in Uruguay

Bukstein, Daniel; Gandelman, Nestor - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper follows an income-based, time-dependence approach to measure social mobility in Uruguay between 1982 and 2010. The paper finds that social mobility in Uruguay is considerable and reports evidence suggesting that this mobility is greater within cohorts of groups, such as those defined...

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Empowering Women for Sustainable Development

Warth, Lisa; Koparanova, Malinka - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2012

Sustainable development cannot be achieved without a more equitable distribution of resources today and tomorrow. This …, through that, sustainable development. It looks first at the concept of women’s empowerment and sustainable development and … and through enhancing women’s capacity as active agents of change for sustainable development in the ECE region. …

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The Impact of Motivation Through Leadership on Group Performance

TEBEIAN, Adriana Elena - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 13 (2012) 2, pp. 313-324

We live times of change, due to technological development, when information and knowledge are main elements of power …

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Why Filipino Migrants Remit? Evidence from a Home-Host Country Matched Sample

McDonald, James Ted; Valenzuela, Ma. Rebecca - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012

This paper uses a unique matched survey dataset to directly test remittance models using information from both remittance-sending and remittance-receiving households. Our results show that the decision to remit is strongly affected by both home and host country factors with altruism motive as an...

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Agricultural policy, migration, and malaria in the United States in the 1930s

Barreca, Alan I.; Fishback, Price V.; Kantor, Shawn - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 4, pp. 381-398

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was associated with a population shift in the United States in the 1930s. Evaluating the relationship between the AAA and the incidence of malaria can therefore offer important lessons regarding the broader consequences of demographic changes. Using a...

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Deadly anchor: Gender bias under Russian colonization of Kazakhstan

Aldashev, Gani; Guirkinger, Catherine - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 4, pp. 399-422

We study the impact of a large-scale economic crisis on gender equality, using historical data from Kazakhstan in the late 19th–early 20th century. We focus on sex ratios (number of women per man) in Kazakh population between 1898 and 1908, in the midst of large-scale Russian in-migration into...

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Axiomatic measurement of multidimensional well-being inequality: Some distributional questions

Croci Angelini, Elisabetta; Michelangeli, Alessandra - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 5, pp. 548-557

This paper focuses on two main issues which are crucial for improving on the analysis of multidimensional inequality … (hereafter AKS) methodology, which defines a multidimensional inequality index consistent with the Pigou–Dalton principle. This … the interaction across dimensions. The empirical application investigates the evolution of inequality in well-being across …

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