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does empowerment become discriminative and when does discrimination betray the more positive expectations of empowerment …
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key ingredients: creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects. Creditor discrimination arises because, in turbulent …
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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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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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discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 … per cent higher in the absence of discrimination. This is somewhat higher than previous estimates have indicated. …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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This paper examines whether, given the increasing salience of subnational governments, political decentralisation has an impact on overall economic performance. It uses panel data analyses in order to determine the association between a number of the different indices of political...
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This paper looks at the economic impact of secession through the lens of the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. It uses an econometric analysis covering the period between 1956 and 2011 – including a series of factors linked to the independence process, socioeconomic and structural...
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The sector business services contributes directly and indirectly to aggregate economic growth in Europe. The direct …
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, the completion of Europe's domestic market could exert a profound influence on nonmember countries. This paper examines …
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