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This article investigates the relationships between ethnicity, class, and prospects of educational success. For this …
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Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning … differentials reflect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in inequality … across societies can be attributed to variation in societal interpersonal diversity, shaped by the prehistorical out …
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Can international tourist arrivals change residents' attitudes towards immigrants and immigration? We discuss possible underlying mechanisms and provide the first evidence on this question using data from the European Social Survey (2002-2019; n=333,505). We find that, as tourist arrivals grow,...
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on the existing literature on inclusion and interviews with 14 experts in diversity and inclusion. The items are then …This study develops and validates the 'Individual Inclusiveness Inventory'. Collaboration and inclusion are key … diversity of thought and background but still encourages the group in a way as to maximise performance and productivity. To …
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occupational and geographic mobility, possibly facilitated by the camps' high economic diversity. I find no evidence of other …
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We apply diversity indices, such as the Gini-Simpson index and entropy related indices, to the study of the … asset diversity and the way individual socio-economic characteristics as well as important life events affect this measure … household level data for 2007 and 2009 in the United States - the Survey of Consumer Finances. We find that asset diversity …
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This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in …
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'; ensure equality over time; raise the standard of candidates; reduce homophily to improve diversity of people and ideas; and … lessen 'the chosen one' factor. We also demonstrate, using Jensen's inequality from applied mathematics, that random …
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Increasing diversity in higher tiers of occupations is a strongly debated topic and subject to legislation and reform … providing evidence how stakeholders perceive and evaluate diversity. …
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Grants and services provided by the government may crowd out informal arrangements, thus weakening informal caring relations and networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of social security expansion on neighborhood cohesion of elders using China's New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), one of...
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