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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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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 …
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This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...
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An imperative need has arisen to provide a Constructive push to the President Bush. American population, Corporate units, Expatriates and all nations with their currency related to US $, are not happy in the current $ dipping situation. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in...
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This paper looks at the history of money and its modern form from a scientific and mathematical point of view. The approach here is to emphasize simplicity. A straightforward model and algebraic formula for a large economy analogous to the ideal gas law of thermodynamics is proposed. It may be...
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Economic organization of the imaginary worlds depicted in popular literary works may be viewed as a mirror to public opinion on the economic organization of life. If a book becomes a best-seller, it is because the book conveys messages, feelings, and events the readers can relate to. In other...
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Transition countries hoping to join the European Union are in the process of introducing western-type anti-discrimination …
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The social science literature has done much to document pervasive racial discrimination in Brazil and there is little … attempted to quantify the impact of ethnic discrimination in Brazil. Using data culled from the Pesquisa National por Amostra de …
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paper, we explore more sophisticated mechanisms with discrimination and asymmetric information to prevent collusion …
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This study considers the joint role of job and housing location as they affect the earnings of different race and gender groups. Building on Wial's (1991) case study of networks in Boston which distribute good jobs, the `network hypothesis' suggests that the channels which distribute high wage...
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