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Demokratie in Afrika –Eine wirtschaftsethische Stellungnahmezur Initiative „New Partnership forAfrica’s Development“ (NePAD)

Voigt, Cora; Pies, Ingo - Wittenberg-Zentrum für Globale Ethik - 2004

Die internationale Gemeinschaft unternimmt seit Jahren erhebliche Anstrengungen, umEntwicklungs- und Schwellenländer auf einen stabilen Wachstumspfad zu führen. Dabei istman zunehmend zu der Erkenntnis gelangt, dass ein wesentlicher Schwerpunkt der Entwicklungszusammenarbeitauf die...

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Trust in cooperation or ability? - An experimental study on gender differences

Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - 2003

We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party's cooperation and trust in ability. In the cooperation condition, player A sends x {0, X} to player B. The amount x is multiplied by c = 3, and B can return y {0,3x}. (...)

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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment : A Distributional Analysis

Baron, Juan; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage … distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in … explaining relative wages. We find that, irrespective of labour market sector, the gender wage gap among low-paid, Australian …

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An Anatomy of EconomicInequality in the UK

Hills, John; Brewer, Mike; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Lister, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

[...]The work of the National Equality Panel will underpin the response by all strategic publicauthorities to Clause One of the Equality Bill which places a new legal duty on key publicbodies to consider, in all the important decisions they make and all important actions theytake, how they can...

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Can Personality Explain what is Underlying Women's Unwillingness to Compete?

Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2011

There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as mendo and are less willing to enter a competition than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personalityvariables toto understand the underlying motives of women (and men) toenter a...

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Continuity and Change in Pathways to Young AdultDisadvantage: Results from a British Birth Cohort

Hobcraft, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

This paper focuses on pathways to adult disadvantage (or social exclusion) up toage 33 for a cohort of children born in Great Britain in March 1958. A sequenceof interrelated analyses that build up a life-course account of the pathwaysinvolved in the origins of adult social exclusion are...

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The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Sookram, Sandra; Strobl, Eric - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …

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Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company

Pfeifer, Christian; Sohr, Tatjana - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent... …

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Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination : The Gender Difference

Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...

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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus

Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates … have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender …

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