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Gender interactions within hierarchies: evidence from the political arena

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2009

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …

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Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring

Bargain, Olivier; Boutin, Delphine; Champeaux, Hugues - 2018

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women's perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have translated into better outcomes within Egyptian households. We conjecture that potential changes...

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Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy

Gradstein, Mark; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Minorities, such as ethnic and immigration groups, have often been subject to exclusion through labor market discrimination, residential and employment segregation policies, business ownership regulations, restrictions on political participation, access to public services and more. This paper...

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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - 2004

We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers …

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Divide et Impera: Negotiating with a Stakeholder

Manzini, Paola - 2002

In many kinds of bilateral negotiations the resolution of the issues at stake has an impact which extends beyond the … remits of the parties directly involved (e.g. labour negotiations in sectors of public interest, where a strike would impact … on the public at large). Once this is recognised, negotiations ought to account for the interests of such stakeholder …

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A constitutional theory of the family

Cigno, Alessandro - 2005

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...

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Ethnicity, assimilation and harassment in the labor market

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008

We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring the minority into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority...

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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2010

In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and thereby increase their...

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The efficacy and efforts of interest groups in post elections policy formation

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuel - 2012

This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies to the case of un-enforced or enforced party...

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