Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...

The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a non-profit collaborative effort of universities, civil society organisations and socially-responsible companies. FLA promotes adherence to international and national labour laws as this non-governmental organisation advocates for greater accountability and...

Das Papier untersucht die 'Jack-of-all-Trades'-Hypothese. Diese unterstellt, dass nicht die Höhe der Produktivität eines Individuums ausschlaggebend ist für eine selbständige Aktivität, sondern deren Bandbreite an Fähigkeiten oder Erfahrung (Lazear 2005). Die Analyse konzentriert sich auf...

We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment and wage employment. We then introduce labour market segmentation. In...

Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The ageing population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...

We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment and wage employment. We then introduce labour market segmentation. In...

This paper studies the influence of entrepreneurial culture among social groups in an economy. The cultural factor determines their occupational preferences. We develop a model in which a concentration factor has been used as a measure of business culture determining the occupational choice...

Analysis about the structure and allocation of a phenomenon need micro data - individual data of the affected people. In our contribution we introduce a new mighty resource of micro data for income analysis: The Income Tax Statistic with anonymized individual data of approximately 30 million...

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...