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Pay and Employment Equity in the United States and Canada

Gunderson, Morley - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 7, pp. 26-43

Pay and employment equity initiatives clearly have been important policies in Canada and the United States. While the policies appear to have had some positive effects for some members of the target groups for which they are to apply, large gaps still remain in the pay and employment...

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Is there injustice in the international economy?

Thanawala, Kishor - In: International Journal of Social Economics 28 (2001) 10/11/12, pp. 852-860

Economic as well as ethical aspects of discrimination and other forms of injustice in the context of a nation’s economy … – especially by economists – to discrimination and injustice in the international context. At least since 1961, several works in … social economics of discrimination and other forms of injustice in the international context. After a brief introduction …

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Networks, culture, transaction costs and discrimination

Jonsson, Petur O. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 28 (2001) 10/11/12, pp. 942-958

Starts out with a survey of various formal theories that have focused on discrimination in the labor market. Argues … that Becker’s traditional taste for discrimination model, the various statistical discrimination models and the new … these models of discrimination in the labor market. …

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The functionality of market‐based discrimination

Darity, William - In: International Journal of Social Economics 28 (2001) 10/11/12, pp. 980-986

discrimination. …

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Family structure, Afro‐Euro inequality and economic justice

Shulman, Steven - In: International Journal of Social Economics 28 (2001) 10/11/12, pp. 1003-1024

The dramatic increase in the fraction of all Afro‐American families headed by single women accounts for approximately two‐fifths of the Afro‐Euro family income gap. Examines the empirical objections to the conclusion that family structure is a major factor behind ethnic inequality and...

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“What′s Equal Opportunities, Dear?”

Jackson, Gill - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 9 (1994) 1, pp. 22-25

Analyses models of integrating equal opportunities into the organization in the context of operant conditioning. Considers reinforcers and punishers specifically with reference to aspects of equal opportunities practice, e.g. harassment, language. Argues that organizations which seem only to...

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Accounting as a tool for Aboriginal dispossession: then and now

Gibson, Kathy - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 13 (2000) 3, pp. 289-306

While the physical dispossession of Aboriginal Australians since European settlement has been well documented, a more insidious role, which has been played stealthily and with little publicity, is that played by accounting practices. Through their contribution to the displacement of social...

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Evaluating accountability: finding a place for the Treaty of Waitangi in the New Zealand public sector

Jacobs, Kerry - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 13 (2000) 3, pp. 360-380

Examines the development of accountability for the Treaty of Waitangi in the New Zealand public sector. Considers how the nature of the accountability obligations arising from the Treaty have developed and how these differ from those that have developed generally in the New Zealand public...

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Survival of the fittest

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 14 (2006) 3, pp. 26-28

the legal requirements employers face when it comes to discrimination, noting that the obese are poorly protected. It asks … whether or not discrimination based on weight is more acceptable than that based on gender or race, and considers what steps …

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When's it due?! Not the baby, the lawsuit

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 14 (2006) 3, pp. 33-35

Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the...

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