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Outsourcing in Brazil : evaluation of legal framework and comments about bill no 4.330/2004
Campos, André Gambier - 2016
Outsourcing may have several impacts in Brazilian labor market, especially for workers. That's why it is relevant to debate new regulations for this phenomenon, mainly legislative ones. The Bill no 4.330/2004 is one of the regulations that have been discussed in the Brazilian parliament. But...
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Gender gaps in performance : evidence from young lawyers
Ferrer, Ghazala Azmat Rosa - 2012
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Lawyers, governance, and globalization : the diverging paths of "public interest law" across the Americas
Silva, Fábio de Sá e - 2017
In recent years, "public interest law" (PIL) has become a frequent component in conversations about law and policy around the globe. While this worldwide manifestation of a professional and political script that thus far seemed to be typically so American suggests a remarkable process of...
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Judicial attitudes under shifting jurisprudence : evidence from Brazil's new drug law of 2006
Castro, Alexandre Samy de - 2021
This paper exploits the diversity of panels at the court of appeals in the state of São Paulo to address the role of career backgrounds and ideology in shaping the response of judicial decisions to a major shift in jurisprudence on drug offenses. The Brazilian constitution reserves 80% of the...
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Matching with waiting times : the German entry-level labor market for lawyers
Dimakopoulos, Philipp; Heller, Christian-Philipp - 2018
We study the allocation of German lawyers to regional courts for legal trainee-ships. Because of excess demand in some regions lawyers often have to wait before being allocated. The currently used "Berlin" mechanism is not weakly Pareto efficient, does not eliminate justified envy and does not...
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Do judicial assignments matter? : evidence from random case allocation
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Helmers, Christian; Love, Brian J. - 2024
Because judges exercise discretion in how they handle and decide cases, heterogeneity across judges can affect case outcomes and, thus, preferences among litigants for particular judges. However, selection obscures the causal mechanisms that drive these preferences. We overcome this challenge by...
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …
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Language proficiency and homeownership : evidence from U.S. immigrants
Luik, Marc-André; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Voss, Simon - 2023
In this paper we deliver first causal evidence on the relationship between immigrant host country language proficiency … and homeownership. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find a substantial positive impact of language skills on … capital and, in particular, language proficiency for socio-economic assimilation. …
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Cultural homophily and collaboration in superstar teams
Békés, Gábor; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2022
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Language integration of labour migrants in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden from a historical perspective
Höhne, Jutta - 2013
The paper investigates the language integration of adult labour migrants in six major West-European immigration … countries under study ignored immigrants' possible language problems until the early or even late 1980s. Compared to the intense … and sophisticated contemporary integration courses, the didactic quality of language courses taught between the 1960s-1990 …
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