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OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether lesbians have higher rates of overweight and obesity than women of other sexual orientations.METHODS: We compared population estimates of overweight and obesity across sexual orientation groups, using data from the 2002 National Survey of Family...
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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird auf eine per Gesetz vorgeschriebene Frauenquote in Deutschland eingegangen. Im Fokus steht die Frage, ob Frauendiskriminierung durch eine solche Vorschrift tatsächlich bekämpft werden kann oder ob vielmehr die Männer diskriminiert würden. Zudem werden...
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taste-based discrimination and structural discrimination may have persisted and possibly increased over time. Gaps in credit …
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, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model … of this differential is due to discrimination, or more precisely, due to differences in how men and women are rewarded …
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Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...
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stylised facts are due to policies and institutions, discrimination, to otherunobservable factors, or to fundamental …
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Trade unions and gender discrimination are generally considered as sources of labor market imperfections. My …' losses for those workers in the future.The third chapter investigates whether gender discrimination affects the earnings in … the returns to endowments (unexplained portion). The latter have been often interpreted as an estimate of discrimination …
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This paper explores patterns of discrimination between residents and foreign creditors during recents sovereign debt … irrespective of their nationality and instances of discrimination against residents and non-residents. We then present evidence in … support of the hypothesis that these patterns of discrimination can be explained by the origin of liquidity pressures, the ex …
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sovereign risk in which debt can be traded in secondary markets. The model has two key ingredients: creditor discrimination and …
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in the racial unemployment gap vary systematically over the business cycle in a manner consistent with discrimination …
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