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Gender discrimination in workforce and its impact on the employees

Channar, Zahid Ali; Abbassi, Zareen; Ujan, Imran Anwar - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 1, pp. 177-191

This research paper explores the issue of gender discrimination in workforce and its impact on the satisfaction and … Hyderabad and Jamshoro districts. Gender discrimination in workforce was measured through independent samples-t test. The …

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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees

Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - 2011

Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...

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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions - and particularly trust in banks, business and government - has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

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Early life conditions and financial risk-taking in older age

Christelis, Dimitris; Dobrescu, Loretti I.; Motta, Alberto - 2011

Using life-history survey data from eleven European countries, we investigate whether childhood conditions, such as socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life. After controlling for the corresponding conditions in...

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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

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Leaders' impact on public spending priorities: The case of the German Laender

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2012

We examine determinants of the composition of public expenditure in the German Laender (states) over the period 1993-2008, as the Laender exhibit a high degree of institutional and political homogeneity and are endowed with extensive fiscal competences. Our prime contribution is an investigation...

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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011

In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market outcomes, using register-based data on the entire population of Swedish workers. We effectively exploit a Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the...

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Political leaders' socioeconomic background and fiscal performance in Germany

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2011

This paper investigates whether the socioeconomic status of the head of government helps explain fiscal performance. Applying sociological research that attributes differences in people's ways of thinking and acting to their relative standing within society, we test whether the social status of...

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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011

In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market outcomes using register data on the total population of Swedish workers. We estimate fixed effect models and use unexpected hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our...

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