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In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equalopportunities and treatment for...
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The term segregation has a strong connotation with residential neighbourhoods, and most studies investigating ethnic … segregation focus on the urban mosaic of ethnic concentrations in residential neighbourhoods. However, there is now a small, but … growing, literature, which focusses on segregation in other domains of daily life where inter-ethnic encounters and social …
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segregation by undertaking a comparative study North and South European cities. Our main finding shows that during the last global … economic cycle from the 1980s through the 2000s, both levels of social inequalities and socio-economic segregation have grown …. However, the effects of rising levels of inequality affect levels of segregation with a strong time lag. This reminds us that …
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We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic … a boy than their counterparts in more segregated areas. We account for the endogeneity of the level of segregation using … segregation is actually larger than that estimated by OLS (around 1.4). We finally provide evidence that exposure to the Serbian …
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contribute to perpetuate the ethnic spatial segregation observed in large cities …
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society, and this can lead to social unrest. Increasing inequality and socio-economic segregation is therefore a major concern … for local and national governments. Socio-economic segregation is the outcome of a combination of inequality and poverty … households. Urban policy often focusses on reducing segregation through physical measures in cities, such as demolishing houses …
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Based on Norwegian administrative registers we provide new empirical evidence on the effects of the childhood neighborhood's socioeconomic status on educational and labor market performance. A neighborhood's status is measured annually by its prime age inhabitants' earnings ranks within larger...
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This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on students' academic performance in New York City primary schools …
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-quality units. This finding supports a residential segregation story, which suggests that the refugee wave has increased the demand …
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examine how this increase in public housing participation has affected segregation. While segregation levels have increased … projects and the surrounding non-public dwellings.As a result, contemporary differences in segregation levels across … segregation has been ambiguous. While large projects have increased segregation, the inflows of non-European immigrants into small …
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