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Selection of Employees with Disabilities – Has the Burden on the Employer Become too Heavy?
Rabenu, Edna; Tziner, Aharon - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 18 (2016) 42, pp. 423-431
applicants to disclose the accommodations that helped them with their scholastic or selection tests achievements. Thus, the … employer is denied the ability to make well-informed, realistic selection decisions, and at the same time – it creates a high … potential for job failure. This paper includes suggestions how to create a fair and transparent selection culture that benefits …
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Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019
While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance and gender equality. We address this question by...
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Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019
While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance and gender equality. We address this question by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059074
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Works councils and organizational gender policies in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019
While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance and gender equality. We address this question by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140851
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How to diagnose equal opportunities between women and men in organizations
Lusa, Amaia; Martínez, Carme; Dolors Calvet, Maria; … - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 2 (2009) 3, pp. 539-557
Gender equality is now a matter that concerns all European countries. Despite the great effort made by governments and the progress of laws, gender discrimination still exists in family, social, cultural, political and economic spheres. Even today, it is rare to find women at the top level in...
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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?
Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2003
In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a ?buffer stock? model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...
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Desafios para o financiamento da proteção social no brasil: O Fundo de Amparo ao Trabalhador (FAT) e sua dinâmica orçamentária (2010-2022)
Silva, Sandro Pereira - 2024
This study aimed to analyze the budget trajectory of the Workers' Support Fund (FAT), contrasting accounting indicators with political and economic factors that may have conditioned its operational planning. The data analysis allowed us to corroborate the hypothesis that the evolution of both...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and SMEs: Impacts and Institutional Drivers
Graafland, Johan J. - 2022
The world’s people and their leaders face a complex and multifaceted set of ‘eco-social questions’. As the productivity of humanity increases, the negative external environmental effects of production and consumption patterns become increasingly problematic and threaten the human welfare....
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Low level of equal opportunities in Germany: Family background shapes individual economic success
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 3 (2013) 5, pp. 3-8
For many years, securing equal life opportunities has been a normative goal shared by all democratic societies in the western world. Although, in principle, all citizens enjoy the same rights, in reality, individual life opportunities still vary according to family background which, in turn,...
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Policy themes on family matters
Nazio, Tiziana; Gábos, András - In: Youth Employment: STYLE Handbook, (pp. 207-211). 2017
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