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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt

Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201

channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors … model estimates confirm that gender-based pay discrimination is small in the government sector in Egypt and quite high by … was quite prevalent in state owned enterprises, amounting to half of the discrimination component. These findings …

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From the bottom to the top: a more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain

Hunt, Priscillia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the...

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Transformational effects of upgrading Nigerian colleges of education to universities in the globalization era : a perspective of staff psychological well-being

Lasun, Gbadamosi; Odufowokan, Benard Adesina - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 185-204

Nigeria`s Colleges of Education are presently losing interest in affiliation processes of Universities under which they award Bachelor and other degrees to their teaming students' population. This may not be unconnected with the excesses of these institutions in sharing proceeds from the fees...

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Teaching managerial economics : spreadsheet exercises integrate economics within the business curriculum

Heath, Will C.; Underwood, James H.; Watson, John K. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 4, pp. 249-256

Business students often have difficulty integrating economics reasoning into other business disciplines because of differences in the format and presentation of financial data across disciplines. Economics courses use one format while Accounting and other business courses use another. This paper...

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Development and imporvement of business higher education through implementation of Students Learning Outcomes Asessment Plan (SLOAP)

Ivanovski, Zoran; Milenkovski, Ace; Ivanovska, Nadica; … - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 4 (2013) 1, pp. 1-16

This study presents new vision how to upgrade business higher education at the Faculty of Economics at University of Tourism and Management in Skopje (UTMS). This paper is result of analyses of best practices of leading higher education institutions as well authors experience in higher education...

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The financial crisis : caused by unpreventable or organized failures?

Müssig, Anke - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 2 (2009) 1, pp. 51-70

In this paper, I analyze cutaways of the current financial crisis against the background of normal accident theory, high reliability theory, and disaster incubation theory. To avoid future financial crises I recommend reducing pressures to make profit and organizing the global financial markets...

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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

differences in it. -- beauty ; height ; discrimination ; market responses …

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Anonymous job applications in Europe

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20

Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended … of this new policy proposal. -- anonymous job applications ; discrimination ; hiring …

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Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? : a decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-25

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, about one quarter to one third of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be...

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The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity

Black, Dan A.; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Sander, Seth G.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

A standard object of empirical analysis in labor economics is a modified Mincer wage function in which an individual’s log wage is a function of education, experience, and race. We analyze this approach in a context where individuals live and work in different locations (thus facing different...

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