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Canada’s employment equity legislation and policy, 1987‐2000
Agocs, Carol - In: International Journal of Manpower 23 (2002) 3, pp. 256-276
Over the past 16 years, a legislative and policy framework has evolved in Canada to address systemic discrimination in …
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Pay and Employment Equity in the United States and Canada
Gunderson, Morley - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 7, pp. 26-43
Pay and employment equity initiatives clearly have been important policies in Canada and the United States. While the …
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“It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma”: Roma discrimination and returns to education in South Eastern Europe
O'Higgins, Niall - In: International Journal of Manpower 31 (2010) May, pp. 163-187
in order to identify the extent of discrimination. Findings – The key results are that: the employment returns to … outcomes is due to discrimination. Research limitations/implications – The survey data employed do not include information on … “discrimination” schools. The analysis suggests that both of these explanations have some basis in fact. Moreover, a direct …
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“It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma”
O'Higgins, Niall - In: International Journal of Manpower 31 (2010) 2, pp. 163-187
in order to identify the extent of discrimination. Findings – The key results are that: the employment returns to … outcomes is due to discrimination. Research limitations/implications – The survey data employed do not include information on … “discrimination” schools. The analysis suggests that both of these explanations have some basis in fact. Moreover, a direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014783365
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Hispanics and the Local Labour Market Earnings of Blacks
Bellante, Don; Kogut, Carl A.; Moncarz, Raul - In: International Journal of Manpower 12 (1991) 5, pp. 22-26
features of the Becker model of discrimination, amely, that the extent of discrimination is affected by relative supply …
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Discrimination and Segmentation Theory: A Survey
Teague, Paul - In: International Journal of Manpower 13 (1992) 6, pp. 52-68
In the Northern Ireland context, even though the debate about whether Catholics have experienced discrimination has …
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Earnings and “skill” allocation in the Canadian labor market
Chu Ng, Ying - In: International Journal of Manpower 24 (2003) 8, pp. 964-980
Using the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, the incidence of skills mismatches in the Canadian workforce was found to be about 27 percent. The overeducated (undereducated) were found to earn less (more) than their adequately educated counterparts. The overeducated could realize a wage gain...
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The impact of overqualification on job search
Wald, Steven - In: International Journal of Manpower 26 (2005) 2, pp. 140-156
Purpose – The two main purposes of the paper are: first, to provide an empirical test of the widely‐held view among employers that overqualified workers are less committed as evidenced by heightened levels of job search, and second, to evaluate the three explanations of overqualification...
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Non‐standard Work in Canada and the United Kingdom
Green, Francis; Krahn, Harvey; Sung, Johnny - In: International Journal of Manpower 14 (1993) 5, pp. 70-86
increasing in many industrialized countries. Contrasts its prevalence in 1989 in Canada and the UK, through a systematic …
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Labour markets in transition : the case of Eastern Europe
Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor) - 2002
Labour markets in transition: the case of Eastern Europe. In 1989 a political revolution in the Soviet Union and its Eastern Europeansatellites led to the dismantling of Communist controls and transition toward freemarkets in goods and services and factors of production
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