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A Economia das Firmas Cooperadas e a Análise Antitruste

Esteves, Luiz A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The economic literature has spent decades of analytical effort in order to provide theoretical and empirical evidence on behavior differences between firms managed by capital (conventional capitalist firms) and firms managed by labor (including cooperatives and professional associations), mainly...

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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country

Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...

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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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Race, culture, and skill: interracial wage differentials among African Americans, Latinos, and whites

Mason, Patrick L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

of discrimination. …

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A Systematic Assessment of Employer Equal Employment Opportunity Efforts as a Means of Reducing the Gender Earnings Gap

Graham, Mary E.; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

discrimination, hiring discrimination, and job placement discrimination (including discrimination in promotions). …

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Job assignment and promotion under statistical discrimination: evidence from the early careers of lawyers

Lehmann, Jee-Yeon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

career paths of blacks and whites, I develop a dynamic model of statistical discrimination in which firms diversify their …

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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Social psychology and gender efficiency wage gap

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Our paper introduces the dimension of social psychology in a model of efficiency wages and gender diversity. In this context, we show that women earn lower wages than men but provide in return relatively less effort. Therefore in order to increase women's productivity, the firm increases their...

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Collective Reputation and the Dynamics of Statistical Discrimination

Kim, Young-Chul; Loury, Glenn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

statistical discrimination in labor markets (Arrow, 1973). The static models dominating the literature of statistical … discrimination, however, may leave the false impression that a bad equilibrium is as fragile as a "bubble" and can burst at any … bad equilibria. By developing a dynamic version of a statistical discrimination model based on Coate and Loury's (1993 …

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A Survey of Experimental Research on Contests, All-Pay Auctions and Tournaments

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which agents exert costly efforts while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These environments have been studied using Tullock contests, all-pay auctions and rank-order tournaments. This survey...

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