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Social mobility and horizontal inequalityFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Social mobility Horizontal inequality Ethnic inequalityWorking Paper
Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban TanzaniaThis paper uses the latest Tanzania labour force survey—the Integrated Labour Force Survey—and a censored bivariate probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urba...
Labour force participation Formal Regression analysisWorking Paper
Material barriers, cultural boundaries: A mixed-methods analysis of gender and labour market segmentation in BangladeshData on female labour force participation in Bangladesh suggest that, despite the increase in female-intensive employment opportunities through microfinance, export garment manufacturing, and community-based services, the majority of working women ar...
Gender inequality Labour market segmentation Mixed methodsWorking Paper
Intergroup contact and its effects on discriminatory attitudes: Evidence from IndiaThe contact hypothesis posits that having diverse neighbours may reduce one’s intergroup prejudice. This hypothesis is difficult to test as individuals self-select into neighbourhoods...
Caste Slums IndiaWorking Paper
Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality: Diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discriminationInequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination...
Inequality Discrimination Job searchWorking Paper
Social mobility and inequality between groupsThe relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention has been paid to ‘vertical’ than to ‘horizontal’ inequality...
Social mobility Horizontal inequality Ethnic inequalityResearch Brief
The gender wage gap in post-apartheid South AfricaThe World Bank reports that the world loses US$160 trillion in human capital wealth due to gender wage inequality every year. Inequality is not just an issue of fairness...
Labour force participation Gender gap Wage gapWorking Paper
The wage-setting power of firms: Rent-sharing and monopsony in South AfricaUsing administrative tax records from South Africa for the period 2011–14, I find that firm wage premia explain 25 per cent of the total wage variance, 60 per cent of the gender wage gap, and 40 per cent of the gap between workers in the middle...
Discrimination Firm effects Income inequalityWorking Paper
Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour marketThis paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993–2015 Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series data set. The changes in the gap are heterogeneous across the wage distribution...
Labour force participation Gender gap Wage gapPolicy Brief
Toward gender equity and women’s empowermentThere are three main channels of women’s empowerment: legal or policy reforms, outside economic opportunities, and collective action...
Gender Equality DiscriminationBook
Towards Gender Equity in DevelopmentThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Gender Equality DiscriminationJournal Article
Discrimination, Social Capital, and Financial Constraints: The Case of Viet NamThis paper examines the relationship among gender, social capital, and access to finance of micro, small, and medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam...
Entrepreneurship Financial constraints GenderBlog
Affirmative action policies and South Africa’s racial wage gap
Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation cemented these disparities by institutionalizing white job reservation and many other unfair practices...
Affirmative action Discrimination ApartheidWorking Paper
Discrimination, social capital, and financial constraints: The case of VietnamThis paper examines the relationship between gender, social capital, and access to finance of micro, small, and medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector in Vietnam...
Entrepreneurship Financial constraints GenderPresentation
ASREC Europe 2016The Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture (ASREC) held a conference at the University of Copenhagen on 16-17 May 2016.
Project
Discrimination and affirmative action - what have we learnt so far?
Theme: Inclusion
Discrimination Class Inequality