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conducted. The results show a segmentation of career paths at two levels. On the one hand, young people of foreign origin who …- class segmentation). On the other hand, strong inequalities exist within those paths which provide rapid access to stabe … employment, as persons obtain lower-quality jobs (intra-class segmentation). …
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This paper provides historical and empirical arguments that can explain the development of the Egyptian informal sector. After recalling the various approaches proposed in the literatures, it identifies the configuration that overrides the Egyptian labor market by allowing for the heterogeneity...
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(Kohonen algorithm). Eight classes of professional paths are exposed. Two kinds of segmentation of professional paths are … obtained. The "inter-class" segmentation : young people who declare themselves discriminated are more present in temporary … discriminated. They explained the refusal of victimization in the labour market. The "intra-class" segmentation : a lot of …
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This study considers the joint role of job and housing location as they affect the earnings of different race and gender groups. Building on Wial's (1991) case study of networks in Boston which distribute good jobs, the `network hypothesis' suggests that the channels which distribute high wage...
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This paper presents and interprets descriptive statistics generated from data obtained in a survey of clients of five microfinance organizations believed to be among the best in Bolivia. These lenders represent different combinations of organizational design, lending technology, and market area...
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segmentation, retention and acquisition. There has been substantial growth in private banking business over the last decade or so … segmentation, retention and acquisition strategies. Overall we find that private banks will have to adopt a more systematic …
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stock market indices of India (Sensex), Hong Kong (Hang Seng), the USA (DJIA) and the UK (FTSE-100). Co …-integration technique has been employed to study the long-term linkages among the markets. We found that the equity markets of India and …
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presence of public goods. This article aims at showing that such a positive relationship does exist, at least in parts of India …
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A vast recent literature has stressed social fragmentation's negative impact on the provision of public goods. This is a key issue, given that public goods availability has been reckoned as crucial to economic development, while developing countries' societies often exhibit high degrees of...
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the source. Despite untouchability practices being outlawed by the Constitution of India, they are still vigorous and …
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