Similar Search Results

Children in Immigrant Families in Switzerland: On a path between discrimination and integration

Wanner, Philippe; Fibbi, Rosita - 2009

Special Series on Children in Immigrant Families in Affluent Societies Public debate on immigration tends to be polarized in Switzerland around issues relating to admission policy. However, many children in well-settled immigrant families also appear to experience social exclusion. This needs to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556811

The Situation among Children of Migrant Origin in Germany

Nauck, Bernhard; Clauss, Susanne - 2009

Special Series on the Situation of Children in Immigrant Families in Affluent Societies Germany may be described as a country of immigrants. Resident foreign citizens alone number around 6.7 million. The share of children who are living with parents who are recent immigrants is quite large. More...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556812

Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis

Gaechter, Simon; Thoeni, Christian - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2009

disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts while advantageous wage discrimination does not increase efforts on average … comparison effects. We also find that reactions to wage discrimination can be attributed to the underlying intentions of … discrimination rather than to payoff consequences. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557034

Decomposing Gender Differences in College Student Earnings Expectations

Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; Remond, Cathy - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2010

Despite the increasing coverage and prevalence of equality legislation and the general alignment of key determining characteristics such as educational attainment, gender differentials continue to persist in labour market outcomes, including earnings. Recently, evidence has been found supporting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642114

Microfinance and Gender: Is There a Glass Ceiling in Loan Size?

Szafarz, Ariane; Agier, Isabelle - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2010

Microfinance institutions serve a majority of female borrowers. But do men and women benefit from same credit conditions? This paper investigates this issue by presenting an original model and testing its predictions on an exceptional database including 34,000 loan applications from a Brazilian...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642289

Women's Work after War

Kleykamp, Meredith A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010

In the more than 30 years following the all-volunteer force (AVF), the proportion of women serving in the military has increased from 1.8 percent just before the AVF to 14.2 percent in 2008. The majority of women do not stay in the military for a 20-year or longer career; like men, most women...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642327

Career perspectives of women in distribution: congruency or contrast?

Lynagh, Peter M.; Murphy, Paul R.; Poist, Richard F. - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 29 (1999) 3, pp. 192-207

Discusses the results from an empirical study that investigated potential career frustrations and concerns of women in distribution, defined as female marketing and logistics professionals. In general, both groups of respondents have some reservations about career opportunities in their...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014794210

Equity Reform in Public Administration: A Longitudinal Study of Executive Attitudes

Hede, Andrew - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 5 (1992) 1

and equity principles in Government agencies, and an increase in the proportion of executives experiencing discrimination …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014799205

Anti‐discrimination legislation in Australia: fair, effective, efficient or irrelevant?

Bennington, Lynne; Wein, Ruth - In: International Journal of Manpower 21 (2000) 1, pp. 21-33

Anti‐discrimination legislation continues to be used as a social and labour market mechanism yet the results of … Australian telephone surveys of randomly selected employers and job applicants indicate that discrimination in the recruitment …’ concern that anti‐discrimination legislation creates additional costs and inefficiencies was found. The role of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014782966

Canada’s employment equity legislation and policy, 1987‐2000

Agocs, Carol - In: International Journal of Manpower 23 (2002) 3, pp. 256-276

Over the past 16 years, a legislative and policy framework has evolved in Canada to address systemic discrimination in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014783034