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Building Genuine Islamic Financial Institutions
Zaman, Asad - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2014
Since the spirit of Islam is in stark and violent conflict with the spirit of Capitalism, the form taken by institutions designed to express this spirit must also be different. Capitalist financial institutions are designed to support the process of accumulation of wealth, which is at the heart...
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Capturing Willingness to Pay and Its Determinants for Improved Solid Waste Management
Mustafa, Usman; Ahmad, Iftikhar; Haq, Miraj ul - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2014
including Pakistan. Large masses living in this world particularly South Asian country (that is home to over one fifth of the … world’s population) is still striving for it. Pakistan, being a developing country, is no exclusion to that state. The … questionnaire from both rural and urban regions of district Abbottabad, Pakistan at HHs premises. The objective was to discover the …
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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...
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The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
aware of running the risk of being included in such an experiment. This suggests that the detection risk alone is not …
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Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the Swedish Labor Market Using Experimental Data
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We present experimental evidence for recruitment discrimination against men with an Arabic sounding name. Our results show that every fourth employer discriminates against the minority. However, simulations indicate that ethnic discrimination is only responsible for less than one sixth of the...
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Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination: The Gender Difference
Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...
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Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment
Kaas, Leo; Manger, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a Turkish-sounding and one with a German-sounding name. A German name raises the average probability of...
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Is It Your Foreign Name or Foreign Qualifications? An Experimental Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...
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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
Birchenall, Javier A.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express adults’ willingness to pay for changes in child...
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'Home Biases', 19th Century Style
Flandreau, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper discusses the existence of 'home' biases in the 19th century global capital market, whereby colonies appear to have received a 'disproportionate' amount of capital from their metropolis. Starting from a discussion of the Bulow Rogoff (1989) problem, we argue that imperial links...
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