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Gender Equality through Household Action : The Next Step to Affirmative Action
Osório C., António M. - 2017
This paper investigates the implications of the unequal division of the domestic labor in men and women participation and incentives to exert effort in competitive relations, in which the labor market is the main example. We found that moderate levels of affirmative action (bias in favor of...
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The Disability–Employability Divide : Bottlenecks to Equal Opportunity
Areheart, Bradley A.; Stein, Michael Ashley - 2018
Joseph Fishkin’s new book, Bottlenecks, reinvigorates the concept of equal opportunity by simultaneously engaging with its complications and attempting to simplify its ambitions. Fishkin describes bottlenecks as narrow spaces in the opportunity structure through which people must pass if they...
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Anonymous job applications and hiring discrimination : anonymous job applications can level the playing field in access to jobs but cannot prevent all forms of discrimination
Rinne, Ulf - 2014
The use of anonymous job applications to combat hiring discrimination is gaining attention and interest. Results from a …
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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 …
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(Un)Equal Protection : Why Gender Equality Depends on Discrimination
Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2016
discrimination. But while the Court famously invalidated several sex-based laws at the end of the twentieth century, it also issued … long-ignored cases that approved of sex discrimination, this Article explains how the Court's rulings in this area have … equal protection that authorizes certain forms of sex discrimination, (Un)Equal Protection advocates for one particular …
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Equality of Opportunity
Roemer, John E. - 2013
This forthcoming chapter in the Handbook of Income Distribution (eds., A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon) summarizes the literature on equality of opportunity. We begin by reviewing the philosophical debate concerning equality since Rawls (sections 1 and 2), present economic algorithms for...
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Chapter 4. Equality of Opportunity
Roemer, John E.; Trannoy, Alain - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 217-300). 2015
The modern formulation of equality of opportunity emerges from discussions in political philosophy from the second half of the twentieth century beginning with Rawls (1971) and Dworkin (1981a,b) . Equality of opportunity exists when policies compensate individuals with disadvantageous...
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Fighting gender inequality in Sweden
André, Christophe; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017
Sweden ranks among the best OECD countries in terms of gender equality. Women have a high employment rate, outperform men in education and are well represented in government and parliament. Nevertheless, without further policy measures, achieving parity is still a distant prospect in several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700409
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Promoting gender equality to strengthen economic growth and resilience
André, Christophe - 2023
Women’s employment rates and wages are still lagging those of men across OECD countries, with average employment and wage gaps now around 15% and 12% respectively. Gaps narrowed at a relatively modest pace over the past decade, calling for further policy action. A lack of affordable...
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A possible brain drain : workplace diversity and equal treatment in Sweden
Kalonaityte, Viktorija; Prasad, Pushkala; Tedros, Adiam - In: International handbook on diversity management at work …, (pp. 244-262). 2010
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