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An analysis of affirmative action in a South African public sector department

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2001
The South African labour market is characterised by a diversity of ethnic and cultural groups. The public sector is experiencing pressure from social, economic, political and legislative circles to make the workplace more representative of the population.
H. E. Brand, S. Stoltz
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A Cure for Discrimination? Affirmative Action and the Case of California Proposition 209 [PDF]

Proposition 209, enacted in California in 1996 and made effective the following year, ended state affirmative action programs not only in education, but also for public employment and government contracting. This paper uses CPS data and triple difference
Caitlin Knowles Myers
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The Impact of Minority Status in the Application of Affirmative Action: NAIDOO v MINISTER of SAFETY and SECURITY 2013 5 BLLR 490 (LC)

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016
Affirmative action measures within the workplace seek to ensure equal employment opportunities and create a workforce that is representative of South African society. Accordingly, employers need to ensure that the substantive goal of equality is achieved
Helen Papacostantis, Muriel Mushariwa
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Deficit Reduction Through Diversity: How Affirmative Action at the FCC Increased Auction Competition [PDF]

In recent auctions for paging licenses, the Federal Communications Commission has granted businesses owned by minorities and women substantial bidding credits.
Ian Ayres, Peter Cramton
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Do Bans on Affirmative Action Hurt Minority Students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan [PDF]

In light of the recent bans on affirmative action in higher education, this paper provides new evidence on the effects of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students.
Cortes, Kalena E.
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What Does Affirmative Action Do? [PDF]

We use data from a survey of employers to investigate how Affirmative Action in recruiting and hiring influences hiring practices, personnel policies, and ultimately employment out- comes.
D. Neumark, H. J. Holzer
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Mapping student enrolment and admission eligibility for higher education in Ethiopia: affirmative action as equity instrument?

Frontiers in Education
IntroductionUNICEF’s Education For All steers for equal opportunities for all students and diversity in the student population. In Ethiopia, affirmative action is the policy tool addressing equity in enrolment and admission to higher education, targeting
Melaku Tesfa Tesema, Sigrid Blömeke, Johan Braeken   +2 more
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Employment and Occupational Advance Under Affirmative Action [PDF]

Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to help move them up the job ladder, and it is this second goal that is perhaps the more controversial.
Jonathan S. Leonard
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Affirmative Action in College Admissions: A Compelling Need and a Compelling Warning [PDF]

, 2007
Higher education has been historically recognized as the very door to opportunity and success for our nation\u27s youths and future leaders. Following the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the cry and pressure for access to America\u27s ...
Finnie, Scott
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Black middle managers' experience of affirmative action in a media company

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2006
Affirmative action remains one of the most highly sensitive, emotive and hotly debated subjects in South Africa. It is nevertheless an important legislated strategy that needs to be thoroughly researched and constructively debated to bring change to the
Barnard B Motileng, Claire Wagner, Nafisa Cassimjee   +2 more
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