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One nation under a groove? Identity and multiculturalism in Britain

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

There is a lot of evidence that identity matters for behavior. There is a widespread belief that societies will function better if they manage to establish a common sense of identity among the population. And there are also contemporary fears that this common identity is threatened in several...

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Religious Freedom and Minority Rights in Greece: the case of the Muslim minority in western Thrace

Boussiakou, Iris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

international treaties regarding the principles of equality and non-discrimination. The paper, thus examines the proposition that … human rights norms regarding the principles of equality, non-discrimination and women’s rights. …

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Family-friendly working: what a performance! An analysis of the relationship between the availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance

Gray, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of workplaces without such practices. It is found that in...

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The part-time pay penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Women working part-time in the UK have hourly earnings that are on average 26 percent less than women working fulltime. Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo investigate what's behind this part-time pay penalty.

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The part-time pay penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In 2003, women working part-time in the UK earned, on average, 22% less than women working full-time. Compared to women who work FT, PT women are more likely to have low levels of education, to be in a couple, to have young and numerous children, to work in small establishments in distribution,...

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Assessing the impact of illness, caring and ethnicity on social activity

Platt, Lucinda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty. Current concerns with the extent and distribution of social capital as both a measure of a good society and as means to upward mobility also emphasise the importance of social...

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Foundations for measuring equality: a discussion paper for the equalities review

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

social inequalities and to make recommendations for the development of a unified Commission for Equality and Human Rights …. This paper was originally written for the Review. It canvasses possible responses to the questions, ‘equality between whom …?’ and ‘equality of what?’. It argues that equality of outcome is intuitively appealing but risks ignoring variations in need …

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Definition of equality and framework for measurement: final recommendations of the equalities review steering group on measurement

Burchardt, Tania; Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

In October 2007, a unified Commission on Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will begin operation in Britain. The … Commission will have responsibility for monitoring and promoting human rights and equality on the grounds of gender, ethnicity … targets, and evaluate progress towards equality” (p.110). In particular, the Review recommended that the framework be used by …

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Evaluation via extended orderings: empirical findings from west and east

Gaertner, Wulf; Jungeilges, Jochen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

The theoretical background of the empirical investigations to be reported in this paper are positionalist aggregation functions which are numerically representable. More concretely, the broad Borda rule is proposed as an aggregation mechanism for the case of a complete set (profile) of so-called...

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Crisis Social Policy and Social Justice: the case for Greece

Venieris, Dimitris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper explores the potential contribution of social justice and social policy for an equitable recovery from the … crisis in the case of Greece. The first part discusses some theoretical dimensions of social justice focusing on its … interrelation with social policy. Social justice is a contested theoretical concept in social and political theory, and a powerful …

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