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In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equalopportunities and treatment for...
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UK over time. The analysis suggests that, in early 90salthough there was no clear cut evidence of segregation in terms of …
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The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main jobin 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However,dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West,except for Ireland, the UK and...
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Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the UnitedStates, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition ofemployment at the firm’s 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects forseveral departments and job...
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We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 inorder to contribute to the debate on the … of particular concern as scoring highly on both.Finally, we show that ethnic segregation is only weakly related to …
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Carefully-matched pairs of written job applications were made to test for age discrimination inhiring. A twenty-one year-old and a thirty-nine year-old woman applied for jobs where a newgraduate was sought; men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired about employmentas waiters; women aged...
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Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientationand gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be relatedto gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and thegeneral absence of...
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The workforce in all industrialized countries is aging. To forecast future challenges,it is important to understand the impact of a worker's age on the labor market. In this paper, we analyze whether older workers in Germany and Norway are treated differently in the hiring process. ...
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The workforce in all industrialized countries is aging. To forecast future challenges,it is important to understand the impact of a worker’s age on the labor market. In thispaper, we analyze whether older workers in Germany and Norway are treated differentlyin the hiring process. Students and...
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source of ethnic segregation,then measures to eliminate prejudice are required to promote integration;whereas if statistical … statistical discriminationis the source of ethnic segregation in schooling. Further we find thatteachers generally do not grade …
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