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Disability, gender and hiring discrimination : a field experiment

Bjørnshagen, Vegar; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Ugreninov, Elisabeth - 2023

This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of … disability and gender shapes employers' hiring behavior by occupational context and gender segregation. We use data from a field … experiment in which approximately 2,000 job applications with randomly assigned information about disability were sent to Swedish …

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Measuring Differences in the Effect of Social Resource Factors on the Health of Elderly Canadian Men and Women

Prus, Steven G.; Gee, Ellen - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2001

It is well-documented that differences in the exposure to social resources play a significant role in influencing gender inequalities in health in old age. It is less clear in the literature if social factors have a differential impact on the health of older men and women. This paper examines...

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Having a bad attitude? The relationship between attitudes and sickness absence

Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Ulvestad, Marte Eline - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 6 (2017) 11, pp. 1-27

Is sickness absence related to attitudes? Several studies point to attitudes as an important factor for sickness absence. We study the relation between sickness absence and attitudes towards possible reasons for sick leave, towards cheating and towards work, by linking a survey among Norwegian...

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Having a bad attitude? : the relationship between attitudes and sickness absence

Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Ulvestad, Marte Eline - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 11, pp. 1-27

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...

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