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discrimination. But while the Court famously invalidated several sex-based laws at the end of the twentieth century, it also issued … long-ignored cases that approved of sex discrimination, this Article explains how the Court's rulings in this area have … equal protection that authorizes certain forms of sex discrimination, (Un)Equal Protection advocates for one particular …
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This paper studies the effect of employee job selection in a model of statistical discrimination in a competitive … group suffer from discrimination turn out to be surprisingly strong. In general it is quite possible that for certain jobs … the discrimination can favor the group that is, on average, worse qualified, while for other jobs it favors the group that …
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In 2002, the United Kingdom implemented the EU directive mandating equal treatment of fixed-term and permanent workers. This paper uses eleven years of data from the Labour Force Survey to assess whether the new legislation has led to a decrease in the average wage gap between fixed-term and...
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. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a barrier for seniors as they try to increase their work lives through the … common practice of "bridge" jobs is also presented. After discussing the evidence that measures age discrimination, economics … and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …
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discrimination. In fact in can be explained by variations in the kinds of job undertaken by men and women, as well as educational and …
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We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to Internet job board applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants. We signal ethnicity by using names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uighur. We find significant...
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Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended …
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Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291397
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725392
Anonymous application procedures (AAP) are increasingly promoted as a way to combat employment discrimination. The idea …
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