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A recent study revealed that up to 90 percent of employers would hire a nonsmoker over a smoker of equal qualification.
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The duration of unemployment was randomly assigned to candidates of otherwise equal qualifications.
My bitterness was compounded by the fact that we had equal qualifications and experience, and that I had voiced my concerns about the potential problems when the job was advertised.
If black and white youths with equal qualifications apply to be a shop assistant in a Rio mall, the white will get the job, he adds.The debate over affirmative action splits both left and right.
"Examination of the evidence indicates that female employees working in warehouse positions had substantially equal qualifications to males working in the same positions, but were paid lower wages even though females were performing the same duties as males," the ruling said.
There's reason to be suspicious on this front: a separate experiment using fictitious job candidates with equal qualifications and background experience found that mothers are judged to be less competent and committed to work than non-mothers, and were consequently discriminated against in hiring and salary decisions.
Another study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that people who sent in résumés with "black-sounding" names had a considerably harder time getting called back from employers than did people who sent in résumés showing equal qualifications but with "white-sounding" names.
The starting point is two groups of individuals with initially equal qualifications who play in a sequential game whose rules hinder the calculation of equilibria.
Add to that the fact that women are still paid only 77 cents on the dollar earned by men for jobs with equal qualifications and assignments.
In lab research where participants were asked to consider whether a woman or man ― with equal qualifications ― should be appointed CEO of a company, women were more likely to be chosen if the company was doing poorly.
The 44-year-old left school at 16 with few GCEs and finds it hard to believe that she now has a qualification equal to a foundation degree.
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