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Managing an ageing workforce: workplace retention practices and early labour market exit
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Jeevitha Yogachandiran Qvist
Socio-Economic Review, Volume 22, Issue 3, July 2024, Pages 1477–1500, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad063
Published: 16 November 2023
.... This finding highlights the employer’s key role in shaping inequalities in an ageing workforce by selectively providing opportunities to extend working lives. ageing employers labour markets segmentation work J14 Economic of the Elderly Economics of the Handicapped Non-Labor Market Discrimination J24...
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Labor Market Discrimination and Sorting: Evidence From South Africa
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Martin Abel
Journal of African Economies, Volume 32, Issue 4, August 2023, Pages 331–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejac013
Published: 22 August 2022
... an important cost of discrimination that has largely been ignored in the literature. labor market discrimination informal sector job search spatial sorting South Africa JEL classification: J46, J61, J71, R2 It is notoriously difficult to study labor market discrimination. In recent years, a large...
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Poverty and Obesity in Developed Countries
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Chad D. Meyerhoefer and Muzhe Yang
Published: 12 November 2015
... consider studies on the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Based on the available evidence, the authors conclude that obesity increases the likelihood of poverty mainly through labor market discrimination against women. The reasons why poverty causes obesity are more multifaceted and include poor...
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Discrimination in the Paulistano Labor Market
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Molly C. Ball
Published: 08 December 2020
... faced substantial formal labor market discrimination, albeit to differing degrees and through different mechanisms. Portuguese workers were disproportionately hired into unskilled positions, Afro-Brazilians faced substantial hiring discrimination, and women faced both hiring and wage discrimination...
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Published online: 20 May 2021
Published in print: 08 December 2020
... trends connected to daily life and individual and family responses to labor market discrimination, inflation, and fluctuating (im)migration. The study emphasizes the family-centered nature of immigration to São Paulo in comparison to other immigrant cities like Buenos Aires and New York City. It shows...
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