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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343915
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Female hires and the success of start-up firms
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343913
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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates … manage to survive submit to market powers and increase their female workforce over time. -- firm survival ; profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897627
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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates … manage to survive submit to market powers and increase their female workforce over time. -- Firm survival ; profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900986
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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates … manage to survive submit to market powers and increase their female workforce over time. -- Firm survival ; profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908366
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Sexual harassment in the workplace : despite being illegal, costly, and an affront to dignity, sexual harassment is pervasive and challenging to eliminate
Hersch, Joni - 2015
Workplace sexual harassment is internationally condemned as sex discrimination and a violation of human rights, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433534
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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap in the post-apartheid South African labour market
Mosomi, Jacqueline - 2019
discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986917
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Is there a penalty for becoming a woman? : is there a premium for becoming a man? ; evidence from a sample of transsexual workers
Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
We study the earnings of transsexuals using Dutch administrative labor force data. First, we compare transsexuals to other women and men, and find that transsexuals earn more than women and less than men. Second, we compare transsexuals before and after transition using worker fixed effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529440
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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt
Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201
channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors … model estimates confirm that gender-based pay discrimination is small in the government sector in Egypt and quite high by … was quite prevalent in state owned enterprises, amounting to half of the discrimination component. These findings …
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Limited Legal Recourse for Older Women's Intersectional Discrimination Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
McLaughlin, Joanne Song - 2018
for older women against employers' discriminatory behavior: the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and Title VII … adequate protection for older women. The main reason for this concern is that older women's intersectional discrimination … discrimination and the importance of recognizing this intersectionality in proof structure. It also reviews case laws and the …
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