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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 … ; wage decomposition ; gender wage gap …

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

; assimilation ; second generation effects ; gender …

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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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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34

Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important … determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …

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Brutto größer als Netto : geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede unter Berücksichtigung von Steuern und Verteilung

Granados, Patricia Gallego; Geyer, Johannes - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 28, pp. 3-12

weiterhin deutlich mehr als Frauen. Seit dem Jahr 2000 hat sich der sogenannte Gender Pay Gap in der Bundesrepublik nur um gut … unerklärten Teil des Gender Pay Gaps über die gesamte Verteilung, also die verschiedenen Gehaltsklassen hinweg, so zeigt sich …, dass der "diskriminierende" Unterschied wächst, je größer das Gehalt wird. Die meisten Studien zum Gender Pay Gap …

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Financial constraints and exports : evidence from Portuguese manufacturing firms

Silva, Armando - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 3, pp. 7-19

This paper analyses the links between financial constraints and firm export behaviour, at the firm level, by using data on Portuguese manufacturing enterprises. Previous empirical literature has not yet reached a consensus on these subjects and there is a great heterogeneity in measuring...

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Dice thrown from the beginning? : an empirical investigation of determinants of firm level growth expectations

Terjesen, Siri; Szerb, Lászlo - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 153-178

entrepreneurial activity in 35 countries, we find male gender, personal acquaintance with an entrepreneur, innovative product …

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The comparative financial managerial performance of US firms and Chinese firms

Asheghian, Parviz - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 2, pp. 119-135

This paper evaluates the relative financial managerial performance of thirty matched-pairs of US firms and Chinese (CN) firms. In this study, financial managerial performance is measured in terms of profitability, debt management, and asset management. Paired comparison is employed and eight...

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The effect of market orientation, learning orientation and innovativeness on firm performance : a research from Turkish logistics sector

Eris, Engin Deniz; Ozmen, Omur Neczan Timurcanday - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 77-108

As it is emphasized in marketing, management, and strategic management literature, "market orientation", "learning orientation", and "innovativeness" are regarded together as having a significant impact on a firm's performance. The objective of this study is to find out the interrelationships of...

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The influence of organisational culture on the total quality management programme performance

Roldán, José L.; Leal-Rodríguez, Antonio L.; Leal, … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 3, pp. 183-189

This paper aims to examine the relationships between different types of cultures and effectiveness in Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation. Using Cameron’s framework, we have tested the connection between a quality culture taxonomy and TQM programme performance using data from a...

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