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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them...