Abstract Gender inequality is one of the main socioeconomic and transformation issues for women in Central Asia due to inherited patriarchal culture, low prioritization problem at country level, poor representation decision-making processes. In case Kyrgyzstan, last couple years, news headlines have been filled with sad stories suffering from domestic gender-based violence discrimination. It ap...

All is not equal Theory suggests that market forces should bring the relative pay of skilled workers into line in different regions within a country. that this is not the case for the UK and argue that regional industrial policy needs to take this into account.

a r t i c l e i n f o We investigate how team and individual performances of players in the National Basketball Association respond to variations in intra-team pay inequality. By breaking down team dispersion into conditional and expected components, we find that expected pay dispersion has a positive effect on team and individual performance. We find that team and individual performances are e...

This article analyses the consistency between implementation of EU Youth Guarantee and fundamental right to work. Focusing on use traineeships as an instrument, it explores various types national Active Labour Market Policies (ALMP) for young unemployed people in Italy, Spain, Netherlands Poland. The case studies show that remains be seen whether considered this research comply with authors arg...

This article presents an architectural framework of an expert system (ES) in the social area domain and describes the design of the ES, using the shell Expert System for Text Animation (ESTA). The designed system is intended for the evaluation of quality of life (QL). The development of ES for QL evaluation is a new information technology derived from artificial intelligent research, using ESTA...

In most applied cost–benefit analyses, individual willingness to pay (WTP) is aggregated without using explicit welfare weights. This can be justified by postulating a utilitarian social welfare function along with the assumption of equal marginal utility of income for all individuals. However, since marginal utility is a cardinal concept, there is no generally accepted way to verify the plausi...

This paper considers a Burdett–Judd model of the labor market with two types of equally productive workers and two types of firms, discriminators and non-discriminators. Without policy intervention, there is wage dispersion between and within the two worker groups, but all wage differences become negligible when the taste for discrimination is small. We analyze the effect of an equal–pay policy...