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Diskriminierungserfahrung von LGBTIQ*-Personen in der öffentlichen Verwaltung: Eine qualitative Studie zur Relevanz organisationaler Kontextfaktoren
Edel, Friederike; Küchler-Stahn, Nicole; Schlegler, Maren - 2020
Gesprächspartner*innen erleben unterschiedliche Formen von Diskriminierung, schätzen diese jedoch generell als eher gering ein. Sie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416707
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Female hires and the success of start-up firms
Weber, Andrea Maria; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277125
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Bridging Social Inequality Gaps - Concepts, Theories, Methods, and Tools
Klimczuk, Andrzej (contributor);  … - 2024
Bridging Social Inequality Gaps - Concepts, Theories, Methods, and Tools focuses on contemporary discussions around multifaceted causes, explanations, and responses to social disparities. The contributors provide studies related to social and cultural dimensions of inequality, economic and...
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Die Einführung von Diversity Management in deutschen Organisationen: Eine neoinstitutionalistische Perspektive
Lederle, Sabine - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 21 (2007) 1, pp. 22-41
Warum und wie Diversity Management Eingang in deutsche Organisationen fand, wird vor dem theoretischen Hintergrund des organisationssoziologischen Neoinstitutionalismus analysiert. Dazu werden qualitative Interviews mit Diversity-Beauftragten mittels einer wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse...
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A Policy Agenda for Diversity and Minority Integration
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
The social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities in the EU is still a major political, societal and economic challenge. Based on evidence presented in Kahanec and Zimmermann (2011), this policy paper proposes an agenda for diversity and minority integration in the European labor...
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Bargaining and Strategic Discrimination
Björnerstedt, Jonas; Westermark, Andreas - 2006
In bargaining between two sellers and one buyer on prices and quantities, strategic inefficiencies arise. By reallocating between the last agreement and the first, the buyer can increase it's share of the surplus. With symmetric sellers producing substitutes, the quantities in the first...
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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: Is discrimination absolute or relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-17
Using microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, this study considers how agents perceive characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic affect...
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Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies
Fang, Hanming; Norman, Peter - 2001
This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335097
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Political culture and discrimination in contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010
objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336030
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Socially-tolerable discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2008
History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …
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