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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - 2012
Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as college towns and investigates differences in employment...
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Are gender-diverse banks less risk-averse? Evidence from the Kenyan commercial banks
Ochenge, Rogers - 2024
: first, that the share of women in Kenyan bank boards is low (sample average of about 19%), although it has made progress …, rising from about 13% in 2010 to about 26% by end of 2022. Second, the paper provides evidence that increasing women …
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To be or not to be... a scientist?
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2012
Policy makers generally advocate that to remain competitive countries need to train more scientists. Employers regularly complain of qualified scientist shortages blaming the higher wages in other occupations for luring graduates out of scientific occupations. Using a survey of recent British...
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Union decline in Britain: Is chauvinism also to blame?
Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2012
The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using the WERS2004 linked employer-employee data and alternative econometric estimators it reports an inverse relationship between workplace union density and gender diversity. Gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282127
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Les femmes dans l'aviation: Assurer des emplois de qualité et favoriser le recrutement et le maintien en poste
Seligson, David - 2024
This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046524
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Las mujeres y la aviación: Empleos de calidad, atracción y retención
Seligson, David - 2024
This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046578
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Why Are There So Few Female Top Executives in Egalitarian Welfare States?
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2009
We identify pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important determinants of...
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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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Zwischen Modernisierung und Stagnation: Beiträge zum Thema 'Berufseinstieg und Erwerbschancen von AkademikerInnen in Österreich'
Egger-Subotitsch, Andrea; Sturm, René - 2009
Die Verwertbarkeit von Bildung und Ausbildung am Arbeitsmarkt ist Bestandteil fast aller bildungspolitischen Diskussionen. Ideologien und Grundhaltungen zur Bildung werden sichtbar, Forderungen hinsichtlich der Erhaltung oder Abschaffung von bestimmten Studienrichtungen rasch abgeleitet. Doch...
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