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Equal-Treatment Policy in a Random Search Model with Taste Discrimination

Kaas, Leo - 2009

, but all wage differences become negligible when the taste for discrimination is small. We analyze the effect of an equal …

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Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality?

Kaas, Leo - 2006

This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against … minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market inequality. When the taste for discrimination is … for discrimination or stronger competition, equal pay legislation leads to more job segregation, and sometimes minority …

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Diversity in University Admissions : Affirmative Action, Top Percent Policies, and Holistic Review

Bleemer, Zachary - 2019

There is considerable interest in the impact of policy alternatives to race-based affirmative action (AA) on under-represented minority (URM) university enrollment. Widely-implemented alternatives include 'top percent' policies, which guarantee admission to top high school students, and holistic...

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Does education predict gender role attitudes? : evidence from European datasets

Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021

This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes towards traditional gender roles in Europe. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated cross-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western...

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Marriage Equality, Workplace Inequality : The Next Gay Rights Battle

Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2021

renewed attention to the argument that sexual orientation discrimination constitutes a form of sex discrimination. The … orientation discrimination and sex discrimination. By combating discrimination in employment, housing, and other civil rights …

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Does Education Predict Gender Role Attitudes? : Evidence from European Datasets

Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021

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The Impact of Mandated Maternity Leave Policies on the Gender Gap in Promotions : Examining the Role of Employer-Based Discrimination

Thomas, Mallika - 2021

This paper examines how mandated maternity leave policies impact the gender gap in promotions. I present a model of the gender gap in promotions where firms must choose whether to invest in the training of their employees, but they are uncertain about their employees' future choice of hours of...

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Executive boards remain dominated by men, but change is finally coming

Kirsch, Anja; Sondergeld, Virginia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 3/4, pp. 18-19

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Markedly more women on executive boards of large companies : inclusion requirement seemingly already having an effect

Kirsch, Anja; Sondergeld, Virginia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 3/4, pp. 20-31

There was a significant increase in the number of women on executive boards of large companies in Germany from 2020 to 2021 after years of slow progress: In fall 2021, there were 139 women on the executive boards of the 200 largest companies, 38 more than in 2020. This is an increase of a good...

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While gender quotas for top positions in the private sector differ across EU countries, they are effective overall

Kirsch, Anja; Sondergeld, Virginia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 3/4, pp. 32-39

This second report in the DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer 2022 explores the designs and effects of gender quotas across Europe, coming to the conclusion that they are an effective instrument for increasing the share of women in top positions at large companies. Furthermore, the quotas...

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