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discrimination that individuals face at work due to their commitment to unpaid care work. It aims at finding mechanisms that may …
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-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against … immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm …
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What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...
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This essay presents an overview of EEO laws designed to outlaw employment discrimination, as well as Affirmative Action … that occurred during the mid-1960's. On the other hand, it is also clear that discrimination persists in some parts of the …
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comparison between Kuwait and Britain's established discrimination legislation. It uses a primary qualitative research method …
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discrimination, and policy responses. Yet there is still a considerable lack of consensus on all three of these issues. I would argue … some evidence consistent with these explanations, this evidence does not rule out an important role for discrimination in … generating sex differences in labor markets. I also believe that the lack of consensus regarding the existence of discrimination …
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In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...
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