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Existence of Structural Disadvantage among socio-religious groups: Is it a reality? An Analysis of Indian Labour Market

DSOUZA, ALWIN; SINGH, SUDERSHAN; RANJAN, RAHUL - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The labour market in India has been segmented into a formal and informal sector. More than 85% of the labour force is engaged in the informal sector. Since the informal sector does not follow labour laws such as provisions of minimum wage and social security, there is enough scope for...

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Labour Market Structure: A Brief Literature Survey

Pillai, Rajasekharan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Labour market is a multi-dimensional entity, with inexorable institutional affiliation. Therefore, the studies on labour market fail to evolve a logical framework to its structure with satisfactory consensus to the theoreticians in totality. It is very interesting to examine the various...

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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries

Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...

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Native-immigrant wage differentials in Greece: discrimination and assimilation

Chletsos, Michael; Roupakias, Stelios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Abstract: This paper applies the Blinder-Oaxaca methodology in order to decompose the average earnings differentials between Greek workers and different groups of immigrants. We use information about 8,429 individuals of which 1,185 are immigrants. The data are drawn from the Greek Labor Force...

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Applying relevant ethical theories to equality

Punabantu, Siize - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

does empowerment become discriminative and when does discrimination betray the more positive expectations of empowerment …

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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that … by economic theory, but “the hypothesis of employer discrimination does not at all explain segregation by occupation …

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Impossibility of interpersonal social identity diversification under binary preferences

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

discrimination, the conceptual reach of economic theory needs extension. I propose a generalization by assigning non … discrimination. …

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The Employment Impact of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Grimes, Paul W.; Register, Charles A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1987

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the macro employment effects of the federal Age Discrimination in …

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Gender Inequality and Trade Liberalization: A Case Study of Pakistan

Ahmed, Naeem; Hyder, Kalim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The main focus of this study is to explore the impact of trade liberalization on gender inequalities in Pakistan. The overall gender inequality based on three dimensions, including labour market, education and health facilities are analyzed in this paper using data from 1973 to 2005. Exports and...

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Labour Market Racial Discrimination in South Africa Revisited

Maciej, Szelewicki; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Discrimination is a significant issue in labour market economics across developed as well as developing countries. In … this paper we inquire the actual size of wage discrimination in the Republic of Soutn Africa, accounting for large … determine the role of discrimination in the wage gaps observed. Although the size of the absolute racial wage gap is enormous …

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