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course. It can join up data on aspects of a person’s life, health, education, family, and employment and show how these …
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While many firms have recognized the importance of recruiting and hiring diverse job applicants, they should also pay attention to the challenges newly hired diverse candidates may face after entering the company. It is possible that they are being assessed by unequal or unequitable standards...
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Australia it remains around 17%. Thus, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue. …
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Australia it remains around 14%. Interestingly, the gender pay gap is relatively small for the young but increases as men and … explain these wage patterns? And what can governments do to speed up wage convergence to close the gender pay gap? Clearly …, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue. …
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The keys to effective teamwork in firms are (1) carefully designed team-formation policies that take into account what level of diversity of skills, knowledge, and demographics is desirable and (2) balanced team-based incentives. Employers need to choose policies that maximize the gains from...
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Family and kinship networks are important in helping people get jobs and start companies, as statistics for developing … countries show. Promising new research has begun to assess the positive and negative effects of these family and kinship ties on … entrepreneurial success. To what extent, and why, are family networks used, and do they result in better economic outcomes for …
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The gender wage gap is largely due to men and women holding different kinds of jobs. This job segregation is partly … driven by gender differences in careers in corporate hierarchies. Research has shown that the careers of men and women begin …. This divergence of career progress explains a large part of the gender wage gap. Understanding how and why the careers of …
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The gender wage gap is largely due to men and women holding different kinds of jobs. This job segregation is partly … driven by gender differences in careers in corporate hierarchies. Research has shown that the careers of men and women begin …. This divergence of career progress explains a large part of the gender wage gap. Understanding how and why the careers of …
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Are apprenticeships valuable for firms? Economists once thought that firms do not pay to develop occupational skills that workers could use in other, often competing, firms. Now, researchers recognize that most firms benefit from investing in apprenticeship training. Firms gain from the...
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Mentoring programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America have been providing positive role models and building social skills for more than a century. However, most formal mentoring programs are relatively novel and researchers have only recently begun to rigorously evaluate their impact on...
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