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Employment and Occupational Advance Under Affirmative Action

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984

Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to help move them up the job ladder, and it is this second goal that is perhaps the more controversial. Studies of Affirmative Action during thel ate 1960's and early 1910's found it...

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Revealing Stereotypes : Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

Alesina, Alberto - 2018

discrimination, but it may also induce a reaction from individuals who were not acting in a biased way …

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Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?

Neumark, David - 2011

may be frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between these reforms and demand …-side efforts to deter age discrimination, specifically studying whether stronger state-level age discrimination protections … age discrimination protections were associated with delayed benefit claiming and increases in employment, with benefit …

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COVID-19 and SME Failures

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020

We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...

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COVID-19 and SMEs : A 2021 "Time Bomb"?

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...

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General Education vs. Vocational Training : Evidence from an Economy in Transition

Malamud, Ofer - 2008

This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which …

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Literacy and the Migrant-Native Wage Gap

Himmler, Oliver; Jaeckle, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Being able to read and write is one of the most important skills in modern economies. Literacy frequently is a prerequisite for employment and its relevance for productivity and wages is magnified by the fact that it is only through literacy that many other skills become usable. More so than for...

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Gender Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from 19,130 Resumes in China

Zhou, Xiangyi; Zhang, Jie; Song, Xuetao - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We study gender discrimination in hiring markets by sending 19,130 fictitious matched resumes in response to … discrimination. On the other hand, this evidence is consistent with statistics that describe discrimination based on gender … respect to regional income disparity, we find that the differences in gender discrimination between first- and second …

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Strategies of Italian firms in Romania. Evidence from selected case studies

Tattara, Giuseppe; Constantin, Florentina; De Giusti, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyze the internationalization of Italian firms in Romania, operating in the sectors of … Veneto and Romania, we discuss for each of the sectors, the changes that occurred in the organisation of the production …

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Public Sector Modernization Trends of the Member States of European Union: Trajectories of Reforms in Italy and Romania

Meneguzzo, Marco; Fiorani, Gloria; Mititelu, Cristina; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

founder member of EU (Italy) and a new EU member country (Romania). Therefore, the paper will: undertake an in … initiatives mostly carried out by the central government. The rewarding initiative '100 Projects' both in Romania and Italy sets …

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