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Rural Poverty in Jharkhand, India : An Empirical Study based on Panel Data
Singh, K.M.; Meena, M.S.; Singh, R.K.P.; Kumar, Abhay; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
caste and schedule tribes are still below poverty line. Hence, it may be said that agroecological and social factors are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260336
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The Return Motivations of Legal Permanent Migrants: Evidence from Exchange Rate Shocks and Immigrants in Australia
Abarcar, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Why do legal permanent migrants return to their home countries? How do home country conditions influence this decision? This paper uses exogenous home country exchange rate shocks arising from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to distinguish return motivations of a national sample of Australian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250907
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Improving the Access to Higher Education for the Poor: Lessons from a Special Admission Program in Chile
Díez-Amigo, Sandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper presents a higher education special access program for students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, custom-designed by the author for one of the leading Chilean universities, and implemented as a pilot during the 2013 and 2014 admission periods. A non-experimental comparison...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011203019
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Using "Cheat Sheets" to Distinguish Ability from Knowledge: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Chile
Díez-Amigo, Sandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
this, in this paper I present a diagnostics experiment, aimed at helping to better understand this issue. In particular, I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206888
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The Impact of College Peers on Academic Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile
Díez-Amigo, Sandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
randomly assigned to their first semester college class groups. This paper takes advantage of this natural experiment in order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206893
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A social proximity explanation of the reluctance to assimilate
Fan, C. Simon; Stark, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021976
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Culture and the Gender Gap in Competitive Inclination: Evidence from the Communist Experiment in China
Zhang, Y. Jane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
minorities. Using an economic experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination across three ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113959
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Understanding Attitudes Towards Migrants A Broader Perspective
Kleemans, Marieke; Klugman, Jeni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Migration is a controversial issue. Reading of the popular media in virtually any country, alongside an array of opinion polls suggest that residents see controls on immigration as essential and that people would prefer to see existing rules on entry tightened rather than relaxed. This stands in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559025
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Positieve maar ook negatieve effecten van etnische diversiteit in scholen op onderwijsprestaties? Een empirische toets met internationale PISA-data
Dronkers, Jaap - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The effect of two characteristics of school populations on reading skills will be estimated in this paper: share and diversity, both on the ethnic and the social-cultural dimension. We use the cross-national PISA-data 2006, both for the 15 years old native pupils and the pupils with a migrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534246
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On the Risks of Belonging to Disadvantaged Groups: A Bayesian Analysis of Labour Market Outcomes
Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
apply these concepts of risk to data for four subgroups in India: forward-caste Hindus; Hindus from the Other Backward …, forward caste Hindus do best in the Indian labour market. This is partly due to their superior labour market attributes and … labour market performance of forward caste Hindus is considerably reduced. We conclude that it is the lack of attributes …
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