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Will you help me please? The effects of race, gender and manner of dress on retail service.
Ainscough, Thomas L.; Motley, Carol M. - 2000
This research attempts to determine if a customer's visible physical characteristics influence retail service delivery. The results of this study suggest that black and male customers wait significantly longer than white and female customers at retail customer service counters. In addition,...
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Predictors of the likelihood of adoption among U.S. women by race and ethnicity
Poston, Dudley L. (contributor) - 2007
, parity, fecundity status, and socioeconomicstatus. A special focus was placed upon the relationship between the race and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464924
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The Buck Stops Here: Fundraising Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations of Color
Fuentes, Claudia - 1997
This is an in-depth investigation of current fundraising issues for nonprofits of color. The aim is to explore why nonprofit organizations of color (those nonprofits that are headed by a person of color and serve a specific minority group) are not getting as many philanthropic dollars as their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449481
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Changing patterns of South African income distribution: Towards time series estimates of distribution and poverty
van der Berg S.; Louw M. - 2004
. In particular, we attempt to arrive at racial distribution data as well as data on inequality within race groups, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480492
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LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH: A LOOK AT RACE IN TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION
Espindola, Azucena - 2011
emphasis in the role of race in transracial adoption and how transracial adoption can benefit and/or affect the children who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485639
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Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert - 2005
Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990’s
D’Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, … - 2008
We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990’s had no adverse effects on native wages and … ‘flexible’ as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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Ethnic niches, pathway to economic incorporation or exploitation? Labor market experiences of Latina/os
Saenz, Rogelio (contributor) - 2004
is placed on how immigration status/nativity, gender, nativity, and skin color influences job search activities and wage … general labor market. When examining the stratification factors of immigration/nativity status, gender, and skin color, in …
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Rational Reconstructions of Society
Arnout, van de Rijt - 2007
The dissertation contains four stand-alone studies, chapters 2 through 5. In chapter 1, I highlight commonalities among the studies. In chapter 2, I consider the principle of structural balance - "The friend of a friend is a friend, the enemy of a friend is an enemy, the friend of an enemy is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466258
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Zuwanderungspolitik und die Finanzierung der Sozialsysteme
Bauer, Konrad - 2004
Immigration junger, hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte am ehesten geeignet ist, der durch den demografischen Alterungsprozess …Immigration policy and the sustainability of the welfare system have recently been subject of political discussion in … analyzes, whether selective immigration policy may lead to fiscal alleviation of the welfare system. A survey of empirical …
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