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Measuring discrimination facing ethnic minority job applicants: an Irish experiment
McGinnity, Frances; Lunn, Peter D. - In: Work, Employment & Society 25 (2011) 4, pp. 693-708
part of the ‘ethnic penalty’ in the labour market is due to recruitment discrimination? This experiment, the first of … its kind in Ireland, explicitly measured this by sending out nearly 500 equivalent CVs from Irish and minority candidates … prejudice and stereotypes in discrimination in this article, arguing that our findings may be linked to the fact that Ireland is …
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Migrant Workers in Sugarcane Mills: A Study of Social Networks and Recruitment Intermediaries in Brazil
Menezes, Marilda Aparecida de; Silva, Marcelo Saturnino da - In: Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy 1 (2012) 2, pp. 161-180
The growing demand for ethanol has resulted in an expansion of the production of sugarcane in Brazil. Several studies have reported the degrading conditions and labour that have resulted in negative physical and psychological impacts, leaving workers with signs of illness. This has helped to...
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Ireland – politics, institutions and post-war economic growth
Barry, Frank - In: CESifo Forum 9 (2008) 1, pp. 23-34
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998638
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Supervision of the Irish Banking System: A Critical Perspective
K.P.V. O’Sullivan; Kennedy, Tom - In: CESifo DICE Report 6 (2008) 3, pp. 20-26
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Regional Income Estimates for Ireland, 1995
O'Leary, Eoin - In: Regional Studies 33 (1999) 9, pp. 805-814
O'LEARY E. (1999) Regional income estimates for Ireland, 1995, Reg. Studies 33 , 805-814. In Ireland since the mid-1980 … necessaires. O'LEARY E. (1999) Schatzungen regionaler Einkommen fur Irland, 1995, Reg. Studies 33 , 805-814. In Irland hat sich …
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Selling global, buying local? What determines the sourcing patterns of multinational plants in Ireland?
Hewitt-Dundas, Nola; Andreosso-O'callaghan, Bernadette; … - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 2, pp. 225-239
determines the sourcing patterns of multinational plants in Ireland?, Regional Studies 39 , 225-239. Multinational enterprises … (MNEs) have played an important, if not crucial, role in the recent development of the economy of Ireland, both North and …
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Trends and Determinants of the Geographic Dispersion of Irish Manufacturing Activity, 1926- 1996
Strobl, Eric - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 2, pp. 191-205
Strobl E. (2004) Trends and determinants of the geographic dispersion of Irish manufacturing activity, 1926-1996, Reg. Studies 38, 191-205. This paper documents the trends in localization of the Irish manufacturing sector since the 1920s and investigates which of three prominent models is most...
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Analysing the Effect of Decoupling on Agricultural Production: Evidence from Irish Dairy Farms using the Olley and Pakes Approach
Kazukauskas, Andrius; Newman, Carol F.; Thorne, Fiona S. - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 59 (2010) 3
Recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy has led to the decoupling of direct payments to farmers from production. This policy change is expected to make farmers’ production decisions more market oriented as their subsidy revenue maximization objectives become profit maximizing...
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A Firm-Level Perspective on Migration
Bettin, Giulia; Turco, Alessia Lo; Maggioni, Daniela - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012
A production-theory approach to migration is adopted in this paper to address the role of migrant workers from extra-EU countries in Italian manufacturing production at the firm-level. The use of exible functional forms to model firm-level technology lets us directly derive different measures of...
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IAB-Erhebung des Gesamtwirtschaftlichen Stellenangebots : Betriebsbefragung zu Stellenangebot und Besetzungsprozessen. Wellen 2005 bis 2009 und Folgequartale
Müller, Anne; Rebien, Martina; Vogler-Ludwig, Kurt - Forschungsdatenzentrum der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, … - 2012
"In recent years, macroeconomic data on job vacancies are increasingly in the focus of interest. This is due to the fact, that administrative data on job openings do not cover the macroeconomic information, neither in their structure nor in their extent. In Germany, this gap can be bridged by...
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