America's corporate boards are insufficiently diverse. Too few women and ethnic minorities are at the table. California's SB 826 seeks to remedy this situation by imposing penalties on publicly traded corporations with headquarters in California, regardless of where they are chartered, if their...

Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing,...

Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing,...

Across the country at work each day, many people are subjected to the dangerous and potentially deadly fumes of secondhand tobacco smoke. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified secondhand tobacco smoke in the most hazardous group of carcinogens, and some studies have shown...

Most immigrants will tell you of the horror stories surrounding their survival. The Cold War which was metaphorically a gang war between the United States of America and the Soviet Union caused many to suffer. Containing the spread of communism and promoting free market economies was the main...

Academia has focused on risks of statelessness for Syrian refugee families. But what about children who are born to the millions of displaced parents who have not crossed an international border into another country? This paper consequently considers the factors that may put internally displaced...

Our analysis of the market for professional baseball players shows that domestic labor-market restrictions have reduced domestic employment, especially of African-Americans, with employers instead shifting employment overseas. Our theoretical model suggests that, in 1965, the imposition of both...

Current literature has not examined gender employment issues in Kuwait's banking industry. This is a key knowledge gap as many women are entering the sector and might be facing discriminatory conducts in comparison to their male colleagues. The scarcity of available literature regarding the...

This paper examines the extent to which contemporary business-led approaches designed to maximize female human capital are effective in reducing the gendered pay gap in the British labour market. In particular it asks whether the approach outlined by the latest Cabinet Office Review on women's...

The aim of this article is to discuss the dilemmas over the integration of accounting in EU member states. The dilemma could be divided into the following main groups. Dilemma of the user of financial statements. This dilemma consists in determining for whom the integration of accounting in EU...