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Understanding trust from the perspective of sociological neoinstitutionalism : the interplay of institutions and agency
Möllering, Guido - 2005
Der Beitrag beruht auf der Vorstellung, dass Vertrauen im Rahmen einer "embedded agency" zu verstehen ist, wobei Vertrauensgeber und -empfänger als Akteure den sozialen Kontext, in den sie eingebettet sind, interpretieren. Sofern dieser Kontext institutionalisiert ist, kann Vertrauen durchaus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466392
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Institutions matter: the case of Vietnam
Tran, Bich Thi; Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom - 2008
The paper investigates institutional reforms in Vietnam and their impact on the economic performance of firms. Using the provincial competitiveness index 2006 (PCI06) and firm-level data in Vietnam in 2005, the results show that provincial competitiveness is economically and statistically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451347
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Die gesetzliche Frauenquote in Deutschland
Amling, Svenja - 2010
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird auf eine per Gesetz vorgeschriebene Frauenquote in Deutschland eingegangen. Im Fokus steht die Frage, ob Frauendiskriminierung durch eine solche Vorschrift tatsächlich bekämpft werden kann oder ob vielmehr die Männer diskriminiert würden. Zudem werden...
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Deregulation and relative wages: Stability and change in Australia
Preston, Alison - 2000
In Australia the pace of labour market deregulation has rapidly accelerated over
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434948
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Estimating a Dynamic Adverse-Selection Model: Labor-Force Experience and the Changing Gender Earnings Gap 1968-–97.
Gayle, George-Levi; Golan, Limor - 2010
and discrimination to explain the narrowing gender earnings gap from 1968 to 1993. The paper proves the model is …: statistical discrimination accounts for 36 percent of the observed gender earnings gap in the mid-to-late 1970s, declining to 22 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441289
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Credit Access, the Costs of Credit and Credit Market Discrimination
Weller, Christian E. - 2008
taste-based discrimination and structural discrimination may have persisted and possibly increased over time. Gaps in credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467885
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The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination
Jolliffe, Dean - 2001
, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model … of this differential is due to discrimination, or more precisely, due to differences in how men and women are rewarded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476678
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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - 2002
Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477510
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The Glass Ceiling in Europe:Why Are Women Doing Badly in the Labour Market?
Booth, Alison L - 2006
stylised facts are due to policies and institutions, discrimination, to otherunobservable factors, or to fundamental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451287
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Labor market imperfections: effects on occupational injuries and earnings
Germiniasi, Andrea - 2010
Trade unions and gender discrimination are generally considered as sources of labor market imperfections. My …' losses for those workers in the future.The third chapter investigates whether gender discrimination affects the earnings in … the returns to endowments (unexplained portion). The latter have been often interpreted as an estimate of discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460812