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disputes that are diverted from courts to individual arbitration – including workplace discrimination and sexual harassment, as …
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This paper revisits stylized facts on female labour force participation, employment and unemployment, using a unified and up-to-date dataset with comparable information for high-income (HI) and middle-low income (MLI) countries. We find that: (i) global trends in labour supply in the last 30...
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Ethnic and racial discrimination in the hiring process is a common and documented problem. Scientists from different … backgrounds and numerous countries have tried to measure the extent of this form of discrimination, mostly by using field … discrimination in more general terms as well as reviewing the studies already conducted that focus on ethnic or racial discrimination …
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Women’s employment rates and wages are still lagging those of men across OECD countries, with average employment and wage gaps now around 15% and 12% respectively. Gaps narrowed at a relatively modest pace over the past decade, calling for further policy action. A lack of affordable...
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For a long time, international investment law has emerged as a rather distinct and specific element of international economic law and general international law. The most significant developments in investment law can be considered the negotiations on CETA, TPP, and TTIP, as they imply a...
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The political theory focus of this paper is the relevance of corporatism to meet the nationalist backlash against the increasing global interdependence that elites encouraged through neoliberal strategies. The paper analyzes the Trump administration’s resistance to international cooperation to...
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The paper empirically explores the international economic effects of gender discrimination, namely the linkages of … the extent of gender discrimination across countries and presents the results of empirical tests of those linkages. The …
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We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants' efforts and innate abilities generate inventions of varying qualities. The designer offers a reward to the contestant achieving the highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the...
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LAC countries. Its main contribution is to expose the double discrimination endured by women in the region. Indeed, the …. The indigenous population also suffers from discrimination, but the wage gap is mainly explained by the difference in …
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