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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 Employment Act as amended. The results indicate mixed effects on the legislation on older workers and workers of traditional retirement age.
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Three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland: putting into perspective the influence of economic discrimination and of host society culture
Kohler, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse causation between these two dimensions of the integration process, and the role of host society culture. Whereas each dimension is usually examined separately, this study proposes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111800
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The Effectiveness of Jobs Reservation: Caste, Religion, and Economic Status in India
Borooah, Vani; Dubey, Amaresh; Iyer, Sriya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
to India’s Scheduled Castes (SC)and Scheduled Tribes (ST). Using employment data from the 55th NSS round, the authors … estimate the probabilities of different social groups in India being in one of three categories of economic status: own account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497661
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Ethnicity, Caste and Religion: Implications for Poverty Outcomes
Thorat, Amit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In the factors that affect income and poverty outcomes, there are some features unique to India. Caste, ethnicity … them freely are of considerable significance. This paper examines to what extent some ethnic,religious and caste minorities … suffer from chronic impoverishment, especially in rural India. What economic endowments are owned by whom and by how much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258100
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МИГРАЦИОННЫЕ ПРОЦЕССЫ В ВЫБОРГСКОМ РАЙОНЕ ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ: СОСТОЯНИЕ, ПРОБЛЕМЫ ТОЛЕРАНТНОСТИ И ТЕНДЕНЦИИ РАЗВИТИЯ...
Drobot, Elena; Shlepova, Kristina; Lisyanskay, Victoria; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The research work contains analisys of migration processes in Leningrad region and Vyborg. It also contains results of sociological head count of local population attitude towards migrants.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260873
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Labor market discrimination of minorities? yes, but not in job offers
Bøg, Martin; Kranendonk, Erik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper presents evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the efficacy of anonymous application procedures. While the policy evaluation itself is of interest, more importantly the experiment provides a unique opportunity to detect race based differential treatment in a controlled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294688
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On Integration Policies and Schooling
Alcalde, Jose; Subiza, Begoña - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper proposes a reform for school allocation procedures in order to help integration policies reach their objective. For this purpose, we suggest the use of a natural two-step mechanism. The (stable) first step is introduced as an adaptation of the deferred-acceptance algorithm designed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008866147
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Integration of migrants in Italy: A simple general and objective measure
Di Bartolomeo, Anna; Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Measuring migrants’ integration into host societies is a challenging task as, in general, measuring any social behavior and social phenomena. The task is affected by many specific problems related to the definition of the objective of study and the impact of subjective evaluations in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836821
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Ethno-Confessional Realities in the Romanian Area: Historical Perspectives (XVIII-XX centuries)
Brie, Mircea; Şipoş, Sorin; Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
); Ion GUMENÂI Religious Minorities in Bessarabia during the -Reaction‖ of Nikolai I (The Case of Jewish Population); Eugen … Political Realities; Cătălin TURLIUC: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Minorities‘ Rights in the 20th Century Romania …; Gabriel MOISA: National Minorities in Romanian Press from Oradea. Interwar Period; Ivan DUMINICA: Romanian Historiography of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258941
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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages
Fryer, Roland G.; Pager, Devah; Spenkuch, Jörg L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...
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