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Moderne Betriebsratsarbeit im Großbetrieb - ein Fallbeispiel
Klatt, Rüdiger - 1995
Der Aufsatz soll anhand einer Intensivfallstudie, die nach der Methode der konstruktivistischen Hermeneutik durchgeführt wurde, die Chancen und Grenzen einer sich modernisierendenBetriebsratsarbeit in Großbetrieben aufzeigen....
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Belfast City Report
Plöger, Jörg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
Europe is a continent of cities with a remarkable history of cultural inspiration, wealth creation, social and politicaldynamism. But in the late-20th century, many former industrial cities entered a period of steep decline, losingmost of their manufacturing jobs and many of their economic...
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Ethnic segregation in England’s schools
Burgess, Simon M.; Wilson, Deborah - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 inorder to contribute to the debate on the … of particular concern as scoring highly on both.Finally, we show that ethnic segregation is only weakly related to …
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School Choice in German Primary Schools:How Binding are School Districts?
Riedel, Andrea; Schneider, Kerstin; Schuchart, Claudia; … - Universität <Wuppertal> / Fachbereich … - 2010
. While advantaged families make choices leading to segregation,the direction of choice is not as clear-cut for disadvantaged … segregation in primary schools, which exceeds the level of residentialsegregation. … auch, dass die Schulwahl begünstigter Familien zurErhöhung der Segregation führt, während die Wahl benachteiligter Familien …
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Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation
Giuliano, Laura; Ransom, Michael R. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the UnitedStates, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition ofemployment at the firm’s 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects forseveral departments and job...
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Measuring School Segregation
Frankel, David; Volij, Oscar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
districts.Properties of other school segregation indices are also discussed. In an empirical application,we document a weakening … of the effect of ethnicity on school assignmentfrom 1987/8 to 2007/8. We also show that segregation between districts … within citiescurrently accounts for 33% of total segregation. Segregation between states, drivenmainly by the distinct …
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An Axiomatization of the Multigroup AtkinsonSegregation Indices
Frankel, David; Volij, Oscar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008
This paper gives an axiomatic characterization of the Atkinson indices of segregationfor the multigroup case using a small number of purely ordinal axioms. We showthat the symmetric Atkinson index represents the unique ordering that treats ethnicgroups symmetrically, that is invariant to...
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Measuring Segregation
Frankel, David M.; Volij, Oscar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2007
We propose a set of axioms for the measurement of school-based segregation withany number of ethnic groups. These …
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages inRomania: From Planned Equality to Market Inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equalopportunities and treatment for...
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SMALL WORLD NETWORKS WITH SEGREGATIONPATTERNS AND BROKERS
Gallo, Edoardo - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2010
high clustering coe±cient; (iii) segregation pat-terns; the presence of (iv) brokers and (v) hubs. (i) and (ii) de¯ne a … emergenceof segregation patterns. The results are robust to varying the number of cognizantagents and to increasing the knowledge …
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