Disparate Impact Disparate impact is a methodology for establishing that an employer has engaged in discrimination against a specific group of employees or job applicants of the same race‚ ethnicity‚ religion or sex that does not require evidence that the employer intended to discriminate. In Smith v. City of Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ 125 S. Ct. 1536 (2005)‚ the United States Supreme Court has held that claims under the ADEA may be brought under a disparate impact analysis. In this case the city of
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The phrase “Corporate Social Responsibility” originates with H. Bowen‚ who wrote “Social Responsibility of Businessmen” in 1953. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is broadly used to describe businesses’ integration of social and environmental issues into decisions‚ goals‚ and operations. According to World Business Council for Sustainable Development “Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving
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for electronic health records to catch on nationally‚ including patients privacy concerns‚ data quality issues‚ and resistance from health care workers. Q. What is the business and social impact of not digitizing medical records (to individual physicians‚ hospitals‚ insurers‚ patients)? Answer: In this case we can see that In 2009‚ the United States spent $2.5 trillion on health care‚ which was 17.6 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP). Approximately 12 percent of that figure was spent
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The social and economic significance of tourism development on a global scale After studying and understanding how deeply tourism development has significantly impacted on the world‚ I have noticed how closely that the social and economic factors are related‚ and how both of these aspects have direct effect on both tourists‚ and the people that permanently reside at destinations that have been extremely popular amongst tourists. The understanding of how economic and social factors interrelate
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TOURISMOS: AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF TOURISM Volume 6‚ Number 2‚ Autumn 2011‚ pp. 139-158 UDC: 338.48+640(050) ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF TOURISM: A CASE STUDY OF AGRA Surabhi Srivastava University of Lucknow Tourism in its broadest generic sense can do more to develop understanding among the people‚ provide jobs‚ create foreign exchange and raise living standards than any other economic force. India is world famous for the city of Taj -Agra. There are a number of other tourists
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Betty Abebe Ethiopia: Population Pyramid For my population pyramid I looked up the country Ethiopia. Ethiopia is still a developing country so the shape that there population pyramid forms is a triangular. Ethiopias fertility rate is about 5.31 child(ren) per women. This shows that Ethiopias population is both growing rapidly in size and declining in median age. When you look at the population pyramid you notice a few strange things. The country is mostly by a large based of young people. For
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Assala‚ Ethiopia‚ is the place I was born. It was a small‚ poverty-stricken village where we had limited access to healthcare. There is a lack of good cardiovascular surgeons in Ethiopia. “ I can not play or run any longer” was a phrase that I heard from one of my good friends at a young age. I remember my young friend suffering from heart disease in sixth grade‚ but he couldn’t get the proper medical attention because he didn’t have the money to go outside of Ethiopia to get the treatment he needed
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BU224-01 November 23rd‚ 2010 HOMEWORK - UNIT 9 EXTERNALITIES & TAXES‚ SOCIAL INSURANCE‚ AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION Chapter 19: Problems 1 and 5 on pages 472-474 Chapter 21: Problems 4 and 9 on pages 517-518 Chapter 19 / EXTERNALITIES /25 1. a. Mrs. Chau plants lots of colorful flowers in her front yard. What type of externality (positive or negative) is described? (2pts) Positive externally. Is the marginal social benefit of the activity greater than or equal to the marginal benefit
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school senior. She is a transfer student from a catholic high school‚ where she was part of a smaller class. She is finishing high school in few weeks. Lately‚ her friends have been noticing that she appears to be uptight and is not show interest in social activities. She spends most of her free time in reading books and articles. When it is time to do a presentation in class‚ fellow classmates have notices that she is anxious and perspires profusely while in front of class. People have also noticed
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SOCIETY CAN BE REGARDED STRATIFIED INTRODUCTION Social stratification refers to the ranking /ordering/classification of people in a society as determined by various parameters which includes language‚ gender‚ power‚ tribal affiliation‚ education‚ religion as a result of education. Stratification is wide spread in the Kenyan communities as a result affecting the economic‚ political and social relationship among the Different communities in Kenya‚ discussed below are the factors which make
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