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Calling on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council: How to deliver for the planet and the economy
Guinea, Oscar; Sharma, Vanika; Lamprecht, Philipp; … - 2024
This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US...
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A quarter-century review of human resource management in the US: The growth in importance of the international perspective
Schuler, Randall S.; Jackson, Susan E. - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 1, pp. 11-35
The past quarter century has witnessed many developments in the research and practice of managing human resources in the United States. In this article, we briefly describe two major areas in which these developments have been unfolding: strategic human resource management and international...
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Sexual orientation, disclosure and earnings
Plug, Erik; Berkhout, Peter - 2008
Gay/bisexual workers tend to earn less than other men. Does this occur because of discrimination or because of selection? In this paper we address this question and collect new information on workplace disclosure to separate out discrimination effects from selection effects. Using a large sample...
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Are homosexuals discriminated against in the hiring process
Ahmed, Ali; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2011
This paper presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Job applications were sent to about 4,000 employers in 10 different occupations in Sweden. Gender and sexual orientation were randomly assigned to applications....
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the cypriot labour market: Distastes or uncertainty?
Drydakis, Nick - 2012
Sexual orientation and employment bias is examined in Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus: Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos) by implementing an experiment for the period 2010-2011. The design is aimed at answering three main questions: Do gay and lesbian people face occupational access constraints and...
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Privatsache und unerheblich für Unternehmen? Der Stand der Personalforschung zur "sexuellen Orientierung"
Köllen, Thomas - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 26 (2012) 2, pp. 143-166
transsexuality, most of the literature focuses on the phenomenon of homosexuality and can be thematically divided into three groups …: 1) Individual's handling of their own homosexuality in the workplace, 2) the atmosphere for lesbians and gays in the … workplace and the organization and 3) the organizational handling of homosexuality and 'sexual orientation'. The review of the …
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Standardization in information systems
Kimms, A. - 2001
common standard of data structures. Since establishing a standard at a system element incurs standardization costs, a … standard. In a recent paper, it is claimed that this so-called standardization problem is an NP-hard optimization problem. We … will demonstrate that this is not true, but in fact the standardization problem can be solved in polynomial time by solving …
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Normung und Innovation sind keine Gegensätze
Konrad, Anne; Zloczysti, Petra - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 40, pp. 10-15
Die Rolle von Normen innerhalb des Innovationssystems ist sehr umstritten. Es wird sogar vermutet, dass die Zeit der Normung bereits abgelaufen sei. Andererseits wird von einer erstarrenden Regelsetzung gesprochen, die die notwendige Flexibilität für Erfindungen und Innovationen verhindere....
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In support of market-driven standards
Bauer, Matthias; Erixon, Fredrik; Guinea, Oscar; … - 2023
The EU published its new Standardisation Strategy in 2022. The strategy contains some good ideas to improve the way European standards are set. However, in its attempt to gain more control over technical standards, the EU risks killing the goose that lays the golden egg. The primary motivation...
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The imperative of international cooperation for EU competitiveness and resilience in technology-driven industries
Bauer, Matthias; Zilli, Renata; Pandya, Dyuti - 2023
The EU must embrace international cooperation and collaboration in technology-driven industries to ensure competitiveness and global relevance, while also considering the drawbacks of isolationist policies. The EU's commitment to open markets and global cooperation has historically been its...
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