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Measuring Hiring Discrimination – A History of Field Experiments in Discrimination Research
Zschirnt, Eva - 2016
Ethnic and racial discrimination in the hiring process is a common and documented problem. Scientists from different … backgrounds and numerous countries have tried to measure the extent of this form of discrimination, mostly by using field … discrimination in more general terms as well as reviewing the studies already conducted that focus on ethnic or racial discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992095
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Kenya : a study in international labor standards and their effect on working women in developing countries; the case for integration of enforcement issues in the World Bank's polic...
Dwasi, Jane - In: Wisconsin international law journal 17 (1999) 2, pp. 347-462
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001430234
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The Determination of Wages and the Gender Wage Gap: A Survey
Kunze, Astrid - 2000
In this paper the extensive empirical literature on the gender wage gap is reviewed with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in the specified human capital wage regression models. This aspect has been of great importance in the literature chiefly for two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262401
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Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? Some new empirical evidence
Dolado, Juan J. Dolado; Felgueroso, Florentino; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 3, pp. 367-393
This paper analyzes the gender distribution of research fields in economics based on a new dataset of almost 1,900 researchers affiliated to top-50 economics departments in 2005, as ranked by Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317102
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The determination of wages and the gender wage gap : a survey
Kunze, Astrid - 2000
In this paper the extensive empirical literature on the gender wage gap is reviewed with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in the specified human capital wage regression models. This aspect has been of great importance in the literature chiefly for two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336850
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Strategic behavior across gender : a comparison of female and male expert chess players
Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik - 2010
This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941764
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Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? : some new empirical evidence
Dolado, Juan J. Dolado; Felgueroso, Florentino; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 3, pp. 367-393
This paper analyzes the gender distribution of research fields in economics based on a new dataset of almost 1,900 researchers affiliated to top-50 economics departments in 2005, as ranked by Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618735
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Epic Backslide : The Supreme Court Endorses Mandatory Individual Arbitration Agreements, #TimesUp on Workers' Rights
Greene, Stephanie M.; O'Brien, Christine Neylon - 2019
disputes that are diverted from courts to individual arbitration – including workplace discrimination and sexual harassment, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111885
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Human Rights, Humiliation, and Globalization
Lindner, Evelin Gerda - 2005
This text is a chapter that highlights how human rights ideals together with globalization profoundly impinge on relationships, both globally and locally. This chapter calls attention to how certain psychological phenomena, such as dynamics of humiliation, gain significance, and thus have to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066811