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Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People
Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M.V. Lee - 2004
Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
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Are homosexuals discriminated against in the hiring process
Ahmed, Ali; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2011
in the private sector. The results also seem to suggest a new dimension of traditional gender roles; the gay applicant …
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Sexual orientation discrimination in hiring
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2000
Little research has been done to examine discrimination against gays and lesbians in the labor market. Badgett (1995) conducted the only previous study investigating labor market outcomes of gays and lesbians using a random data set. However, due to the structure of the data, the wage...
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How Banks Construct and Manage Risk : A Sociological Study of Small Firm Lending in Britain and Germany
Quack, Sigrid - 2012
This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological institutionalist approach to understand how banks construct and manage risk, relating to SME business. The empirical analysis is based on the results of a comparative survey of a sample of...
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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
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Understanding Reserve Volatility in Emerging Markets: A Look at the Last Thirty Years
Demarmels, Ricarda; Fischer, Andreas M. - 2002
volatility for 30 emerging market economies from 1973 to 2000. We find that reserve holdings and openness to be the most …
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Understanding Reserve Volatility in Emerging Markets: A Look at the Long-Run
Demarmels, Ricarda; Fischer, Andreas - 2003
economies from 1973 to 2000. Reserve holdings and openness are found to be the most important explanatory variables of reserve …
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Public investment in developing countries: A blessing or a curse?
Cavallo, Eduardo; Daude, Christian - 2008
in countries with worse institutions or that lack trade and financial openness. …
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Takeoffs
Aizenman, Joshua; Spiegel, Mark - 2007
de jure trade openness is positively and significantly associated with takeoffs. A one standard deviation increase in de … jure trade openness is associated with a 55% increase in the probability of a takeoff in our default specification. We also … find evidence that capital account openness encourages takeoff responses, although this channel is less robust. Measures of …
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On the Determinants of Labour Market Institutions: Rent-sharing vs. Social Insurance
Agell, Jonas - 2000
What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...
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