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Three Essays on Heterogeneous Workers in Imperfect Labour Markets

Manger, Christian - 2010

Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei eigenständigen Arbeiten, die unterschiedliche Auswirkungen von Arbeitsmarktunvollkommenheiten auf heterogene Arbeiter betrachten. Die erste Arbeit zeigt anhand eines spieltheoretischen Modells, dass lediglich Koordinations- und Informationsfriktionen...

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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 …

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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...

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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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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 …

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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 …

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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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An empirical investigation of lending to small businesses

Min, Kyung-Seol - 2008

ABSTRACTMIN, KYUNG-SEOL, An Empirical Investigation of Lending to Small Businesses. (Under the direction of Douglas K. Pearce and Karlyn Mitchell.) This dissertation analyzes lenders' two important decisions (loan approval decision and loan rate decision) in their loan evaluation procedures...

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Using the National Information Infrastructure for social science, education, and informed decision making

Tonn, B.E. - 2008

used to address four major social concerns: ensuring economic prosperity; health care; reducing crime and violence; and K …

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Essays on crime and search frictions

Engelhardt, Bryan - 2008

a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … spell of criminals by two months reduces crime and recidivism by more than five percent.Chapter 2 incorporates crime into a …

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