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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"quotas"”.
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Gender Quotas in Electoral Systems: Explaining Voluntary versus Legal Quotas Worldwide.
North Carolina State University Theses Sociology.
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Individual transferable fishery quotas under uncertainty
… management systems with individual transferable quotas (ITQs). Assumptions of the model include: (1) the fish stock fluctuates randomly year by year; (2) in-season stock depletion is small; (3) the total allowable catch (TAC) set by the quota authorities has a definite relation with the fish …
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Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards: A Holistic Analysis
Gender quotas for corporate boards have risen in popularity ever since Norway implemented the first quota in 2003. Proponents point to economic arguments (i.e. enhanced return on assets and return on equity) as well as social good rationales (i.e. bolstered corporate social responsibility and …
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Immigration, Quotas and Its Impact on Medical Education
For greater than a century higher education has provided the means for the immigrant class to enter the American mainstream. In no other field has this been more apparent than in the pursuit of a medical education to become a physician. This goal was most evident among the first and second …
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Affirmative action, quotas and hiring in San Bernardino County school districts
Affirmative action, more strongly than ever before in the history of its existence as a viable approach to bringing minorities and women into work force populations, has been called into question. Much rhetoric has been spent on whether or not minorities and women have made measurable gains because …
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Affirmative action, quotas and hiring in San Bernardino County school districts
Affirmative action, more strongly than ever before in the history of its existence as a viable approach to bringing minorities and women into work force populations, has been called into question. Much rhetoric has been spent on whether or not minorities and women have made measurable gains because …
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Subverting Reform: The Politics of Gender Quotas in Kenya's County Assemblies
Since 2013, Kenya’s constitutional gender quota has ensured that women hold at least one third of seats in the country’s subnational county assemblies. Yet significant inequities in representation and influence persist. Drawing on 143 interviews with candidates, politicians, and party officials as …
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The impact of electoral gender quotas on women’s representation in legislative decision-making bodies
… worldwide are reported to practice gender quotas in some form. Nonetheless, electoral quotas are not uncontroversial, despite their political appeal and common adoption. Critics note that such measures run a danger of bringing to office individuals who lack the necessary qualifications and …
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The global landscape of gender quotas on corporate boards : contexts for adoption and opposition in 2014
… been an acceleration in the adoption of gender quotas on boards since Norway pioneered legislation in 2003. Countries that have made parallel reforms have primarily been in the western European bloc, while other countries have displayed strong resistance to this measure. The reasons underlying …
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Some concepts of the impact of acreage allotments and marketing quotas on central and western Kansas farms
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1957 S63
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Assessing the effectiveness of gender quotas in enhancing women's political leadership - A case study of Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa
… African countries have adopted electoral gender quotas as affirmative action in enhancing women’s political leadership. While the adoption of gender quotas is celebrated, the literature reveals that implementing quotas remains a challenge in practice. Despite adoption of quotas, women’s …
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Supervisory Board Gender Diversity and Gender Quotas: Analysing the Impact on Financial Performance and Management Board Gender Diversity in Germany.
More than ten years after the financial crisis in 2007 corporate boards are again busy navigating through turbulent times. Today, the financial market and a globalized and interconnected world are not the only challenges they need to manage. For quite some time companies have been facing additional …
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The changing dynamics of the South African clothing value chain and the role for industrial policy : a case study of the China quotas
In 2001 the South African clothing sector was reintegrated into the global economy and became exposed to the icy winds of globalisation. The fundamental changes from developments that had been playing out in global clothing markets and from which, as an import - substitution economy with high …
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Engaging in the quota debate: From equal opportunity to equality of presence
… “women friendly” policies. Legislation of gender quotas to secure women’s inclusion in electoral politics is one of such policies. In this thesis, through a comparative analysis of gender legislation in Chile and Peru, I explore the effectiveness of gender quotas policies for women’s greater …
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Match Stability with a Costly and Flexible Number of Positions
… in this field addresses the matching with fixed quotas, this is not always applicable. We introduce the concept of slot stability, recognizing the potential motivation for organizations to modify their quotas after the match. We propose an algorithm designed to create stable and slot stable …
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Religion, Electoral Rules and Women's Representation: A Cross National Examination
… the size of parliament increases and the longer quotas are in place, the percentage of women in parliament declines. This suggests that women are more isolated in larger sized parliaments and more integrated in smaller sized parliaments. (2) The conceptual interaction between the religious …
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Essays on trade barriers in imperfectly competitive markets
… vs dynamic--and to the types of trade barriers--quotas, tariffs, voluntary export restraints, etc. We consider the case of almost every combination of the previous classifications. From this survey we find that once the assumption of perfect competition is removed, the outcome for a particular …
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Economics of Sustainable Resource Use
… Baltic cod analysis shows that stock-specific quotas yield higher profits than joint or fleet-specific regimes when optimized for maximum economic yield. Joint quotas can be more precautionary only if set sufficiently low, implying underharvesting relative to stock-specific optima. …
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Effects of Quantitative Restrictions on U.S. Textile and Apparel Imports over 1995-2010: An Analysis using Gravity Models
… (ATC) (1995-2005), the post-ATC U.S. safeguard quotas on 21 categories of Chinese textile and apparel products (2006-2008), and no quantitative restrictions on U.S. textile and apparel imports (2009-2010). Data were sourced from the Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) in the U.S. Department …
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Gender Diversity in Corporate Boards in France: An Analysis
… in 2003, governments have looked to gender quotas as a tool to accelerate gender equality. Though the effects in Norway were at first mixed, as the so-called “golden skirt” problem resulted in only a few women occupying multiple board seats, several European countries followed Norway’s …
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