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UNINA9910783848603321 |
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Autore |
Neumark David |
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Sex differences in labor markets / / David Neumark |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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1-135-99674-1 |
1-135-99675-X |
0-429-23489-9 |
0-203-69399-X |
1-280-07630-5 |
0-203-79991-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (433 p.) |
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Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 10 |
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331.12 |
331.4/133/0973 |
331.41330973 |
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Sex discrimination in employment - United States |
Sex discrimination in employment - Government policy - United States |
Affirmative action programs - United States |
Pay equity - United States |
Work and family - United States |
Labor market - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Sex differences in labor markets; introduction; Family economics and sex differences in labor markets; Does marriage really make men more productive?; Marriage, motherhood, and wages; Sources of bias in women's wage equations: results using sibling data; Fertility timing, wages, and human capital; Relative income concerns and the rise in married women's employment; Testing for discrimination; Employers' discriminatory behavior and the estimation of wage discrimination; Sex discrimination and women's labor market outcomes |
Sex discrimination in restaurant hiring: an audit studyWages, productivity, and worker characteristics: evidence from plant-level |
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production functions and wage equations; Testing models of discrimination; Wage differentials by race and sex: the roles of taste discrimination and labor market information; Market forces and sex discrimination; Evaluating policy responses to sex differences and sex discrimination; New evidence on sex segregation and sex differences in wages from matched employer employee data |
Are Affirmative Action hires less qualified?: evidence from employer employee data on new hiresWhat does Affirmative Action do?; Index |
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Sex differences abound in labor markets. In the United States three differences in particular have attracted the most attention: the earnings gap, occupational segregation, and the greater responsibility of women for child care and housework, and consequential lower participation in the labor market.This volume brings together David Neumark's work of the past fifteen years: in it he tries to understand and analyze the relative importance of family economic decision-making and sex discrimination in generating sex differences in labor markets. Neumark's research covers three main levels of i |
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UNINA9910785878303321 |
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Autore |
Hess Earl J |
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The Knoxville Campaign [[electronic resource] ] : Burnside and Longstreet in east Tennessee / / Earl J. Hess |
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Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, 2012 |
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1-283-61098-1 |
9786613923431 |
1-57233-924-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (425 p.) |
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Knoxville (Tenn.) History Siege, 1863 |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns |
United States History 19th century |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Burnside and East Tennessee -- Turn Around -- Lenoir's Station -- Campbell's Station -- Sanders Buys Time -- Siege -- Search for a Solution -- Fort Sanders -- Relief -- Break Away -- Bean's Station -- Longstreet in East Tennessee -- Orders of Battle -- Appendix A: The Forts of Knoxville -- Appendix B: Knoxville's Civil War Legacy. |
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"Hess's account of the understudied Knoxville Campaign sheds new light on the generalship of James Longstreet and Ambrose Burnside, as well as such lesser players as Micah Jenkins and Orlando Poe. Both scholars and general readers should welcome it. The scholarship is sound, the research, superb, the writing, excellent." -Steven E. Woodworth, author of Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in the WestIn the fall and winter of 1863, Union General Ambrose Burnside and Confederate General James Longstreet vied for control of the city of Knoxville and with it the railroad that link |
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