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human capital, but they had high employment rates, and over time they closed their initial large earnings gap with other …Welcoming 60,000 Southeast Asian refugees in the 1979-80 period has become a celebrated part of Canada's history, but … educational attainment and earnings when they reached adulthood. The geographic region of residence was associated with some large …
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This study examines the link between employment precarity and energy poverty from racialand ethnic perspectives. Data …. Ourendogeneity corrected results indicate that employment precarity is associated with higherlikelihoods of energy poverty, with … index. Based on race, we find that employment precarity increases energy poverty moreamong Black South Africans compared to …
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The aim of this article is to investigate the causal relationship between remittances and poverty reduction for 14 …-stationary dynamic panel data. Our estimation results reveal that causality nexus of poverty and remittances is bi-directional. We also … find that the causal impact of poverty reduction on remittance is stronger than the reverse impact. Indeed, despite of its …
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of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and …
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faring? Here we study poverty rates and determinants of poverty among natives and persons born in Bosnia, Iran, Iraq … destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied … Yugoslavia or Turkey who had immigrated to Denmark during the '70s and '80s were more likely to be in poverty in 2010 that their …
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Efforts to tackle discrimination in access to basic services have shown mixed results in different country settings. This study examines the positive and negative outcomes attributed to anti-discrimination measures adopted in different country contexts and analyses the factors contributing to...
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population in concentrated settlements, separated neighbourhoods or ghettos. The majority live in poverty and face social …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …
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We explore the impact of authorization on the poverty exposure of households headed by undocumented immigrants. The … the likelihood of life in poverty of households headed by eligible individuals by 38 percent, hinting at the gains from …
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