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Information technology, inequality and adult literacy in developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M.; Rahman, Mushfiqur - 2023

for the period 2012-2016. Income inequality is measured with the Gini coefficient while six dynamics of information …

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Information technology, inequality and adult literacy in developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023

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The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities : Panel Data Evidence from South Africa

Kerr, Andrew - 2012

use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data from South Africa, which show extremely large average earnings …

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The Channels of Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : A Cross-Country Comparison

Franzini, Maurizio - 2013

Family background can influence offspring earnings in two ways: conditioning their educational attainments (indirect effect) and circumscribing their opportunities in the labour market, independently from their educational attainment (direct effect). In this paper, following a multi-steps...

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An Assessment of Literacy, Income and Health Status of Fishers in Floodplain Wetlands of Assam

Chandra, Ganesh - 2013

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The Income-Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality

Nielsen, Eric - 2015

between youth from high- and low-income households. Commonly-employed, cardinal methods suggest that this "income …. In fact, any weighting scheme that places more value on higher test scores must conclude that the reading income …-achievement gap decreased between these two surveys. The situation for math achievement is more complex, but low-income students in …

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Inequalities in education across Canada : lessons for the pandemic

Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre - 2020

Schools have been closed across the country and will remain so until September. The decision to reopen should take into account current inequalities in education across the country and the impact of school interruptions on the accumulation of cognitive skills. In this article, we document the...

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The evolution of cognitive skills inequalities by socioeconomic status across Canada

Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre - 2020

In this article, we document the evolution of the cognitive skills gap across Canada. We use PISA tests scores over 7 cycles, from 2000 to 2018, to provide an exhaustive portrait of the evolution of the tests scores distribution over time and by parental socioeconomic status. We find that the...

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Wage, Literacy, and Numeracy Skills Inequality : Do Immigration Admission Categories Matter?

Mueller, Richard - 2020

Using the 2012 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we explore differences in literacy and numeracy skills, and the economic returns to these skills, for Canadian immigrants and non-immigrants. The novelty of this research is disaggregating the sample into...

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Self-employment in rural China: its development, characteristics, and relation to income

Gustafsson, Björn; Zhang, Yudan - 2021

the China Household Income Project surveys covering the same 14 provinces from 1988 to 2018 are used. We find that the … proportion of adults in rural China with self-employment as their primary form of off-farm employment increased from only 2 … income than other categories of households. Based on estimates of income functions, we conclude that the income premium from …

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