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a minor effect on within school class social interactions. There is weak evidence of decreased ethnic segregation within …
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equilibrium. Second, extreme levels of segregation can be stable when racial income disparities are either large or negligible … segregation when racial income disparities are sufficiently small. These results hold even when preferences are pro …
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This paper develops a measure of segregation based on two premises: (1) a measure of segregation should disaggregate to … interacts. Developing three desirable axioms that any segregation measure should satisfy, we prove that one and only one … segregation index satisfies our three axioms, and the two aims mentioned above; which we coin the Spectral Segregation Index. We …
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El principal objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la evolución de la segregación ocupacional por género en Uruguay y en particular si esta evolución estuvo asociada a la tendencia en el diferencial de salarios entre hombres y mujeres. Existe un alto nivel de segregación en Uruguay y no...
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Domicílios (PNAD), this paper fills this void by analysing ethnic wage and employment gaps, as well as sectoral segregation in …
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household registration system in China, the profile of the migrants, explanations for rural-to-urban migration, and the … interaction between migration and labor market evolution, with special reference to labor market segregation, labor market …
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Looking at data from HUD’s low income housing tax credit database from 1987 to 2001, we examine how the US tax credit program has concentrated poverty in neighborhoods by offering advantages to developing low income housing projects in low income census tracts. We then use a simple Cellular...
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The baseball card industry provides a case study of survival in a declining industry. The case study shows how manufacturers have varied their strategic behavior in response to changes that have occurred within the industry in the last 20 years. This is in stark contrast to most of the existing...
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The motion passed in 2002 in the parliament of the Swiss canton of Valais by the MP Yves Bagnoud requires that the government has the overall debt of the State externally audited. The aim of this study is to provide information to answer the motion. To do so, the study is organised as follows....
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This is a case study of TeX, a typesetting software that was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 70's. Released with an open source license, it has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world's scientific literature in physics and...
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