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Michaels, Guy; Zhi, Xiaojia - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

Do firms choose inputs that minimize their cost of production, ignoring the attitudes of their owners and employees? We examine this question using an episode of worsening relations between the US and France: from February 2002 to March 2003, France's favorability rating in US public opinion...

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Gender Discrimination and Efficiency in Marriage: the Bargaining Family under Scrutiny.

Rainer, Helmut - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 2005

This paper criticizes the view that discrimination limits the disadvantaged sex to undertaking housework and thus … between labor market discrimination and the strategic behavior of women and men within families. We consider a repeated family … marital bargaining power. Gender discrimination can alter household behavior in surprising and sometimes unfortunate ways. We …

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Pricing Strategies in E-Commerce: Bricks vs. Clicks.

Friberg, R.; Ganslandt, M.; Sandstrom, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

What is the impact of the increasing dominance of conventional firms in e-commerce? We use a simple model to show that retailers who only sell through Internet have lower on-line prices than retailers who also sell through conventional stores. This proposition is firmly supported by our...

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Case Studies of good practice for the Prevention of Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia and the Promotion of Equal Treatment in the Workplace. Germany

Bruggemann, B.; Riehle, R. - European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 1997

The present text was produced in response to the European Foundation's request for a compilation of selected examples of "good practice" in promoting equal treatment at the workplace in the Federal Republic of Germany. In accordance with our terms of reference, these examples are presented in...

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Case Studies on the Prevention of Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia and the Promotion of Equal Treatment in the Workplace. Austria

Gachter, A. - European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 1997

Educational measures can only help with certain aspects of racism, sexism, etc. They can help the subject to reflect on the adequacy of the criteria it applies in judging persons it does not know personally. But education does not remove the causes inviting the subject to make categorical...

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Case Studies of good practice for the Prevention of Racial Discriminati on and Xenophobia and the Promotion of Equal Treatment in the Workplace. Belgium

Martens, A.; Sette, K. - European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 1997

The Social Dialogue Summit in Florence in 1995 issued a declaration in which the participants commited themselves to combating racism in general and at the workplace in particular. This declaration was also signed by Belgium, which means that each joint committee must conform to this arrangement...

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Narrowing the Gender Wage Gap: Is Equal Value Legislation the Answer?

Shamie, S. - Queen's at Kingston - Sch. of Indus. Relat. Research … - 1986

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Sex, Wages, and Productivity : an Empirical Analysis of Israeli, Firm-Level Data.

Hellerstein, J-K; Neumark, D - Economics Department, Michigan State University - 1995

One potentially important form of sex discrimination in labor markets is a wage gap between women and men that is …

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Labour Market Discrimination on the Basis of Health: an Application to UK Data.

Madden, D. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1999

This paper carries out an analysis of wage discrimination on the basis of health on UK data with a number of important … for and third, we examine discrimination with regard to participation as well as wages. …

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WTO, Business and Governments: Elements for an Analysis of the Croatian Case

Mikic, Mia; Jurcic, Ljubo - In: Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business 5 (2002) Special Conference Issue, pp. 69-82

Croatia as a Central European transition economy has acceded to the WTO relatively late (2000). Joining the WTO has been seen as a prerequisite for gaining access to the European regional markets (the EU and CEFTA). More importantly however a membership in the WTO was supposed to provide a...

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