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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258965
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Native-immigrant wage differentials in Greece: discrimination and assimilation
Chletsos, Michael; Roupakias, Stelios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Abstract: This paper applies the Blinder-Oaxaca methodology in order to decompose the average earnings differentials between Greek workers and different groups of immigrants. We use information about 8,429 individuals of which 1,185 are immigrants. The data are drawn from the Greek Labor Force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258967
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Applying relevant ethical theories to equality
Punabantu, Siize - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
does empowerment become discriminative and when does discrimination betray the more positive expectations of empowerment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259042
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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that … by economic theory, but “the hypothesis of employer discrimination does not at all explain segregation by occupation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260187
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Impossibility of interpersonal social identity diversification under binary preferences
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
discrimination, the conceptual reach of economic theory needs extension. I propose a generalization by assigning non … discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260675
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The Employment Impact of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Grimes, Paul W.; Register, Charles A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1987
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the macro employment effects of the federal Age Discrimination in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262862
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Gender Inequality and Trade Liberalization: A Case Study of Pakistan
Ahmed, Naeem; Hyder, Kalim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The main focus of this study is to explore the impact of trade liberalization on gender inequalities in Pakistan. The overall gender inequality based on three dimensions, including labour market, education and health facilities are analyzed in this paper using data from 1973 to 2005. Exports and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079330
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Labour Market Racial Discrimination in South Africa Revisited
Maciej, Szelewicki; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Discrimination is a significant issue in labour market economics across developed as well as developing countries. In … this paper we inquire the actual size of wage discrimination in the Republic of Soutn Africa, accounting for large … determine the role of discrimination in the wage gaps observed. Although the size of the absolute racial wage gap is enormous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014961
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Selection Wages and Discrimination
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025237
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Do high incomes reflect individual performance? The determinants of high incomes in Germany
Hirschel, Dierk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
or sexual discrimination …
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