Recent empirical work has identified the existence of cultural filters â demographically non-neutral processes whereby employers differentially screen applicants to evaluative attributes and characteristics - and analyzed how they affect differential employment success rates and wage levels....

In 1963, the North Dakota Legislature amended the North Dakota Century Code to ensure that all licensed community pharmacies in the State are majority owned by pharmacists registered in the State. During the 2008-2009 legislative session, a debate arose about whether this law should be repealed....

This paper empirically identifies and isolates the role demographics and cultural filters - ia priori/i attributes used to screen applicants differentially - play in determining employment patterns by industry and region. Our analysis focuses on three geographically and culturally distinct areas...

In a seminal paper, Erwin Graue (1939) provides an institutional analysis of the causes and consequences of personal bankruptcy protection in the United States during the period 1900-1937 when bankruptcy procedures were guided by the Federal Bankruptcy Act of 1898 (the Law was revised in 1938)....

We present a three-fold test for sustainability on policies addressing environmental and natural resource management. The first — <i>ecological holism</i> — requires that management of natural systems not only ensure the long term viability of ecosystem functions and enhanced diversity of wildlife...