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A double gender-family inequality phenomenon in the international mobility of young researchers

Moguérou, Philippe - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper, we raise the question of gender differences in the geographic mobility of young researchers. We try to answer to three main questions regarding the international mobility of young researchers during the post-doc period: Are there differences among genders? Does “family” have...

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Categorical Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making

Fryer, Roland G.; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

smaller (minority) groups. We then apply the model to understand simple forms of discrimination and social identity. It is … shown that discrimination in hiring can result from such cognitive processes even when there is no malevolent taste to do so …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135029

Hiring discrimination in the French financial sector: an econometric analysis on field experiment data

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Pascale, PETIT - EconWPA - 2004

We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled … compensate this difference of treatment between genders so that there is no significant discrimination on average. …

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Mind the Gap - Bridging the Gender Gap in Developing Regions

Magnoli, Alessandro - EconWPA - 2005

According to conventional wisdom, health and education are important factors for economic and social development: they improve productivity and income distribution, and the poor gain the most. Nonetheless, in many regions of the world not all members of society receive these services equally. To...

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Coasean economics and the evolution of marine property in Hawaii

kaiser, brooks; roumasset, james - EconWPA - 2004

population pressure in Hawaii co- evolved with specialization and increased governance, in accordance with the efficiency theory …. Instead of market-based specialization, however, economic organization in pre-contact Hawaii was hierarchically determined via …

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Intercity Trade and the Industrial Diversification of Cities

Anas, Alex; Xiong, Kai - EconWPA - 2003

locally. A larger cost-share of services favors specialization, and high intracity commuting cost and population growth favor …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062501

Specialization and Geographic Concentration of East Java Manufacturing Industries

Landiyanto, Erlangga Agustino; Pradana, Anindita; … - EconWPA - 2005

concentration has a relation with industrial specialization which based on industrial structure on that region. The objective of … of that industries is, and how the relation between the spatial concentration and specialization and industrial structure … specialization index and Krugman bilateral index to analyze the data.. …

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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality

Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

We develop a model where agents obtain information about job opportunities through an explicitly modeled network of social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads to an increase in the agent's employment probability...

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Next in Line – Romanians at the Gates of the EU (emigrants, border control, legislation)

SIMINA, Ovidiu - EconWPA - 2005

The first of May 2004 marked an important date in the history of Europe as a political, geographic, and social entity. After years of negotiations, ten European countries joined the European Union, bringing in their potential and expectations, adding a total population of 75 million people and a...

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A Note on Non-Discriminatory Access to Railroad Infrastructure

Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2003

The setting of user prices for enterprises with large fixed costs and marginal costs below average costs – “natural monopolies” – raises important policy questions regarding both efficiency and equity. It has become well accepted among economists that, in a variety of settings, welfare...

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