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Adopting local languages as official languages : effect on women and rural individuals' labor force in Burkina Faso

Yameogo, Souleymane - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 42 (2020) 2, pp. 31-56

globalization and international competitiveness. The findings here may be of use to researchers and policymakers as part of their …

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Globalisation and the challenges of managing cultural diversity : from multiculturalism to interculturalism

Gross-Gołacka, Elwira; Martyniuk, Anna - In: Journal of intercultural management : the journal of … 16 (2024) 3, pp. 37-57

organisations, considering two approaches: multiculturalism and interculturalism. The article seeks to identify the key challenges … faced by organisations in a globalised world and assess which approach - multiculturalism or interculturalism - is more … available empirical research and reports. Findings Interculturalism is found to be more effective than multiculturalism in …

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Macroeconomic cost of excluding persons with disabilities from the workforce in Spain

Cámara, Angeles; Martínez Martín, María Isabel; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/15, pp. 1-21

The article analyzes and deals with the problems associated to exclusion of persons with disabilities from the workforce based on the impact it has in the context of economic and social dimensions, considering the fact that it results in high cost because of such exclusion. Specifically, it...

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Are ESG female? : the hidden benefits of female presence on sustainable finance

Bosone, Costanza; Bogliardi, Stefania Maria; Giudici, Paolo - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 2, pp. 253-274

Though gender equality has been at the centre of debate over the last decades, a number of benefits concerning the impact of female directors on corporate performance are still overlooked. Particularly, the link that seems to exist between female directors and sustainable finance has received...

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Job market discrimination against slum dwellers in urban Argentina

Zanoni, Wladimir; Acevedo, Paloma; Hernández, Hugo - 2022

We conducted a paired correspondence experiment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to measure the extent of labor market discrimination in hiring against slum dwellers. We sent 4,290 online pairs of fictitious job applications of otherwise observationally equivalent individuals who differed in a single...

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Entgelttransparenzgesetz erreicht Ziel nicht

Brändle, Tobias; Koch, Andreas - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 103 (2023) 12, pp. 842-849

Das Entgelttransparenzgesetz soll dazu beitragen, das Gebot des gleichen Entgelts für Frauenund Männer bei gleicher oder gleichwertiger Arbeit durchzusetzen. Nach der zweiten Evaluationwird deutlich, dass dies mit den vorhandenen Instrumenten des Gesetzes nicht erreicht wird.Ohne größere...

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Disability employment quotas : effects of laws and nudges

Duryea, Suzanne; Martínez Alvear, Claudia; Smith, Raimundo - 2024

We study the effects of a new 1% employment quota enacted in Chile in 2018 using anonymized administrative data on monthly employer-employee linkages and disability certification records. Our firm-level difference-in-difference results show a 15-20% increase in the number of people with...

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Enforcing "Equal Pay for Equal Work" in the EU : what would it take?

De Poli, Silvia; Maier, Sofia - 2022

The European Parliament has recently approved new binding pay transparency measures to promote ''Equal Pay for Equal Work'', an EU founding principle which is at the heart of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan towards 2030. Using harmonized microdata for the EU 27 countries and a...

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To include or not to include? : firm employment decisions with respect to the German disabled worker quota

Hiesinger, Karolin - 2022

This paper analyzes whether financial disincentives affect firm demand for disabled workers. In Germany, firms must pay a noncompliance fine if they do not meet their legal quota for disabled workers. I exploit a threshold in this quota: Firms with fewer than 40 employees are required to employ...

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Cultural intelligence of expatriate health workers in an inuit context : an exploration of managerial competency profiles

Morin, Geneviève; Talbot, David - In: Businesses 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-17

Developing cultural diversity skills is a major ethical challenge for organizations operating within marginalized communities. This study defines cultural intelligence profiles us a two-step approach. In the first step, managers (n = 31) are invited to complete a Cultural Intelligence Quotient...

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