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Gender discrimination in workforce and its impact on the employees
Channar, Zahid Ali; Abbassi, Zareen; Ujan, Imran Anwar - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 1, pp. 177-191
This research paper explores the issue of gender discrimination in workforce and its impact on the satisfaction and motivation, commitment and enthusiasm and stress level of employees. Close ended questionnaire was administered from 526 males and females of lower, middle and higher category...
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Agonism, decision, power: The art of working unfinished
Pløger, John - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 81 (2023) 5, pp. 449-460
with a finite decision. This paper suggests that this agonistic approach needs de-cisions or simply put, temporary … decisions drawn from seeing a decision as a solution for now. A de-cision is not a no-decision, but a decision recognised as … planning process from being a matter of reaching a finite decision to a strife about how to understand the present and which …
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Bankkredite für Unternehmerinnen: geringe Benachteiligung in entwickelten Finanzsystemen
Muravyev, Alexander; Schäfer, Dorothea; Talavera, Oleksandr - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 34, pp. 525-530
Frauen gründen im Vergleich zu Männern seltener Unternehmen, ihre Gründungen fallen kleiner aus und sie wählen eine andere Finanzierungsstruktur. Es existieren jedoch nur wenige Informationen über die Hintergründe dieser Unterschiede. Insbesondere für Europa gibt es kaum gesicherte...
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Auswanderung von Deutschen: kein dauerhafter Verlust von Hochschulabsolventen
Diehl, Claudia; Mau, Steffen; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 5, pp. 49-55
Im Jahr 2006 haben etwa 155 000 Deutsche ihr Land verlassen - mehr als je zuvor, sieht man einmal von der Auswanderungswelle der Nachkriegszeit in den 50er Jahren ab. Allerdings kehren auch viele Deutsche in ihre Heimat zurück. Obwohl die Frage nach den Ursachen für diesen Anstieg mittlerweile...
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Messfehler-bedingter Bias bei kleinen Teilmengen
Hochgürtel, Tim; Wilke, Clarissa - In: WISTA – Wirtschaft und Statistik 72 (2020) 5, pp. 114-123
Die Messungen von dichotomen Individualeigenschaften können fehlerbehaftet sein. Diese Messfehler sind in der Regel nicht erkennbar und können somit nicht korrigiert werden. Damit besteht die Möglichkeit, dass Messfehler der Individualebene Aggregate wie Häufigkeiten und Anteilswerte...
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Taste or statistics? A correspondence study of ethnic, racial and religious labour market discrimination in Germany
Koopmans, Ruud; Veit, Susanne; Yemane, Ruta - In: Ethnic and Racial Studies 42 (2019) 16, pp. 233-252
In this study we compare rates of discrimination across German-born applicants from thirty-five ethnic groups in which various racial and religious treatment groups are embedded, this study allows us to better distinguish taste and statistical sources of discrimination, and to assess the...
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Discrimination against Turkish minorities in Germany and the Netherlands: field experimental evidence on the effect of diagnostic information on labour market outcomes
Thijssen, Lex; Lancee, Bram; Veit, Susanne; Yemane, Ruta - In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47 (2021) 6, pp. 1222-1239
Previous studies have found that the labour market outcomes of Turkish minorities are slightly better in Germany than in the Netherlands. In this paper we test one of the explanations: differences in ethnic discrimination in hiring. We use a harmonised field experiment to test whether...
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Different samples, different results? How sampling techniques affect the results of field experiments on ethnic discrimination
Auspurg, Katrin; Schneck, Andreas; Thiel, Fabian - In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility forthcoming (2020)
This paper explores a possible sampling bias in field experiments through a unique combination of a large-scale field … market, we first observed the expected sampling bias: There was a strong over-sampling of small suppliers and apartments … already offered for a long time. Second, this bias was found to have only little impact on the descriptive result of …
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Ride with Me - Ethnic Discrimination, Social Markets and the Sharing Economy
Tjaden, Jasper Dag; Schwemmer, Carsten; Khadjavi, Menusch - In: European Sociological Review 34 (2018) 4, pp. 418-432
We study ethnic discrimination in the sharing economy using the example of online carpooling marketplaces. Based on a unique dataset of 16,624 real rides from Germany, we estimate the effects of drivers’ perceived name origins on the demand for rides. The results show sizable ethnic...
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New Nationalism and Development in Africa: Review Article
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 1, pp. 111-123
About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...
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