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Our policy is to treat men and women equally: The status of women in the finance industry

French, Erica L.; Strachan, Glenda - 2006

This paper investigates data from reports submitted by finance and insurance organisations employing more than 100 persons to the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, to identify their approach undertaken in implementing equal employment opportunity. This industry is a...

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Marriage and Money: Variations Across the Earnings Distribution

Western, M. C.; Hewitt, B. A.; Baxter, J. H. - 2005

on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is … constant for men and women at different points on the conditional earnings distribution by using robust and quantile regression … techniques. We find no assoication between marriage and wages for women, but for men a large and significant premium exists with …

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Epidemiological modelling (including economic modelling) and its role in preventive drug therapy

Liew, D.; McNeil, J. J.; Peeters, A.; Lim, S. S.; Vos, T. - 2002

In contrast to curative therapies, preventive therapies are administered to largely healthy individuals over long periods. The risk-benefit and cost-benefit ratios are more likely to be unfavourable, making treatment decisions difficult. Drug trials provide insufficient information for treatment...

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Dominated by Women: Managed by Men? The career development process of retail managers

Broadbridge, A. - 2007

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to explore some issues regarding the career development of men and women retail … dominated by male norms and values and this has implications for the way in which men and women managers experience their jobs …

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Changes in male labor supply and wages

Devereux, Paul J. - 2003

In the 1980s, both wages and labor supply of poorly educated men fell substantially relative to those of educated men … hours and wages. The small implied labor supply elasticities suggest that very little of the labor supply changes of men …

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Removing the "relative" uncertainty within the Australian donor insemination network

Sawyer, Neroli - 2009

In Australia there is no federal legislation limiting the use of donor sperm. However, it is important to place limits on the multiple use of sperm donors to reduce the risk of inadvertent half-sibling mating between the offspring of anonymous donors and to control for the consequences of...

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Democracy, Crises, and Misconceptions

Beilharz, Hans-Jörg - 2005

We consider misconceptions about the functioning of the economy as one possible explanation for the emergence of crises in democracies. Furthermore, we study a political process which may lead to successful reform. First of all, we show that voters can make inefficient decisions concerning...

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Essays in the theory of voting power

Steffen, Frank - 2002

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How service companies from emerging markets overcome internationalization barriers: evidence from Chilean services firms

Bianchi, Constanza C. - 2009

(Barney, 1991). Drawing from interviews with relevant managers of two different service industries in Chile (education and …

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On the internationalisation of firms from emerging markets : an exploratory study

Bianchi, Constanza - 2009

reports, this paper provides insights into the successful internationalisation process of firms from Chile. In particular, the …

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