The caste issue dominates a large part of India's social and political life. Caste shapes one's identity. Furthermore … economic comparison triggers the actual caste-based behaviours (castes' political demands, discrimination). … society. We focus on both within and between-castes comparisons. Within-caste comparisons appear to reduce well …

maintaining a work force with diversity in age. Overall, the implication is that it is beneficial to define additional short …

The article focuses on cultural diversity and whether it has economic value. Though it is undisputed that cultural … diversity within a country increases entrepreneurial behaviour the question that remains is whether this heightened … results showed that ethnic diversity in the team of owners and partners of firms was indeed associated with greater …

As evidence of the continuing interest raised by "board gender diversity", major studies (Catalyst, 2008; World … Economic Forum, 2010; European Board Diversity Analysis, 2010) were recently carried out and have all led to reports confirming … the imbalance of women on boards and the need to address this issue. Moreover, our analysis of these reports indicates …

gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general … are assumed to decrease the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender di¤erence in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantiffed. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …

In this article, we examine the structure of gender and ethnic wage gaps, and the distribution of both, paid and unpaid … Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. The determinants of hours allocated to paid and unpaid work activities between gender groups …, are estimated by seemingly unrelated regressions. The results indicate that women are highly discriminated in the job …