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"Almost unaffected by the 2008 wave of soaring world food prices, Ugandan local market prices exhibit signs of high price volatility in the first quarter of 2009. At the household level, while net producers may reap some benefits from this increase in food prices, net consumers are more likely...
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gender bias. This paper provides new evidence on this topic using a unique experimental dataset. We used data from a field …
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In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
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Without education, development will not occur, only an educated people can command the skills necessary for sustainable economic growth and for a better quality of life. Recognizing this fact, African governments have placed heavy emphasis on expanding educational opportunities from primary...
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gender and age regulation); d) Restructuring effects (policy on transfer of personnel, policy on redundancies, and …
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History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple model of conflict which is driven by … either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the conflicts …
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below the regional average income, and depend on state welfare programs. We found gender differences in employment, earnings …
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This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the … equalizer for gender anymore than it has been shown to be by class. The results here indicate that growth exhibits a negative …
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This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …
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