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Disparities in labour market and income trends during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis : evidence from Germany
Braband, Carsten; Consiglio, Valentina Sara; Grabka, … - 2022
This paper studies inequalities in labour market outcomes, incomes and economic concerns across workers in Germany during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis using SOEP-CoV data. It shows that, overall, the self-employed and disadvantaged groups of workers were more severely affected by the...
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Social segregation in secondary schools : how does England compare with other countries?
Jenkins, Stephen (contributor);  … - 2006
We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross-national perspective. Analysis is based on data for 27 rich industrialised countries from the 2000 and 2003 rounds of the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003332856
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Expropriation with hukou change : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Akgüç, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, rural and migrant samples, we find that those obtaining an urban hukou have better labour market...
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Worries across time and age in Germany : bringing together open- and close-ended questions
Rohrer, Julia M.; Bruemmer, Martin; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2017
We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which … influence worries. For example, worries about peace peaked in 2003, the year of the Iraq War, with a considerable number of … effects - worries about various topics such as health and the general economic situation increase with age. With increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694829
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The politicized pandemic: ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19
Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2022
We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...
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Distributional impact analysis : toolkit and illustrations of impacts beyond the average treatment effect
Bedoya, Guadalupe; Bittarello, Luca; Davis, Jonathan; … - 2018
Program evaluations often focus on average treatment effects. However, average treatment effects miss important aspects of policy evaluation, such as the impact on inequality and whether treatment harms some individuals. A growing literature develops methods to evaluate such issues by examining...
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The measurement of educational inequality : achievement and opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522507
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Measuring youth empowerment: an illustration using the example of Tunisia
Goedhuys, Micheline; Grimm, Michael; Meysonnat, Aline; … - 2021
Youth empowerment, i.e., the ability of young people to take control over key aspects of their lives, has become a growing concern to achieving sustainable development worldwide. An increasing number of policy interventions is targeting the youth, but to monitor the progress a better...
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The impact of micro-credit on employment : evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan
Kahn, Azhar; Rahman, Twyeafur; Wright, Robert E. - 2016
This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non-borrowers. Pipeline borrowers are included to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502591
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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...
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