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The Racialized and Gendered Workplace: Applying an Intersectional Lens to a Field Experiment on Hiring Discrimination in Five European Labor Markets

open access: yes, 2020
We draw on a field experiment conducted in five European countries to analyze hiring discrimination on the basis of gender and race. We adopt an intersectional perspective and relate existing theories on gender and racial discrimination to recent work on
Valentina Di Stasio, Edvard N. Larsen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

FLA Toolbox: Fair Hiring Processes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Fair Labor Association
core   +1 more source

Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Undertrained and Overwhelmed

open access: yesJournal of New Librarianship
As libraries grapple with declining budgets, shifting priorities, high rates of turnover, vacancies, the “new normal,” and the persistent push to “do more with less,” an increasing number of library workers have found that their roles have deviated from
Sharona Ginsberg
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity in Public Library Boards: Perspectives of Board Members

open access: yesPartnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2020
The initial aim of this study was to learn if there was any diversity in ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or disability among public library board members. Through participant interviews, this study reports on member perceptions of diversity in the
Maha Kumaran, Leanne Templeton
doaj   +1 more source

Data from 990 Public Real-World Job Advertisements Organized by O*NET Categories

open access: yesJournal of Open Psychology Data, 2022
Text from 990 job advertisements were downloaded from companies on the Fortune 500 2020 list of top companies. These job ads covered 32 different job titles from eight industries.
Steven Zhou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Can Hiring Quotas Work? The Effect Of The Nitaqat Program On The Saudi Private Sector [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper studies the effects of quota-based labor regulations on firms in the context of Saudi Arabia\u27s Nitaqat program, which imposed quotas for Saudi hiring at private firms.
Peck, Jennifer R.
core   +2 more sources

Catching up by hiring: The case of Huawei

open access: yesJournal of International Business Studies, 2020
Hiring experts in centers of state-of-the-art technology is an important way in which a multinational enterprise (MNE) can gain competitive advantage, and yet use of this mechanism remains under-researched.
Kerstin J. Schaefer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

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