What is Discrimination? Discrimination is unfair or unequal treatment of an individual based on characteristics such as age‚ race‚ religion‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ and plenty other of reasons. Discrimination can occur in schools‚ health care services‚ buses/trains‚ housing‚ employment‚ and when voting. This is a big issue and has had a major impact on the past and present. Discrimination has been around for thousands of years and is still going on today. Discrimination has been going on since
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American Economic Association The Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure: From Choice to Contract Author(s): Oliver E. Williamson Source: The Journal of Economic Perspectives‚ Vol. 16‚ No. 3 (Summer‚ 2002)‚ pp. 171-195 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3216956 Accessed: 21-04-2015 06:39 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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TAX ASSIGNMENT On Computation of taxable income of individual‚ HUF and firms COMPUTATION OF TAXABLE INCOME OF AN INDIVIDUAL What is included in income of an individual? While computing taxable income of an individual‚ the following points should be considered— Nature of income | Tax treatment | Income earned by the taxpayerShare of profit from a HUFShare of profit from a firm assessed as firmSalary & interest from the aforesaid firmShare of profit from an association of persons/body of individualsIncome
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Explain analytically how trade unions can influence firm performance. How best should employers deal with trade unions? Introduction A trade union is an organisation of workers who have come together to achieve common goals such as increasing pay‚ increasing the number of employees which an employer hires‚ and improving working conditions. The trade union bargains with employers on behalf of all its members and negotiates labour contracts; the most common
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European Journal of Endocrinology (2007) 157 S39–S45 ISSN 0804-4643 Fat distribution and storage: how much‚ where‚ and how? Ram Weiss The Diabetes Center and the Department of Pediatrics‚ Hadassah Hebrew University School of Medicine‚ PO Box 12000‚ Jerusalem 91120‚ Israel (Correspondence should be addressed to R Weiss; Email: weissr@hadassah.org.il) Abstract Obesity does not necessarily imply disease and similarly obese individuals may manifest obesity-related morbidity or seemingly be
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Why Do Firms Pay Dividends? International Evidence on the Determinants of Dividend Policy* DAVID J. DENIS** Krannert School of Management Purdue University West Lafayette‚ IN 47907 djdenis@purdue.edu IGOR OSOBOV Georgia State University Department of Finance Atlanta‚ GA 30303 iosobov@gsu.edu May‚ 2007 We thank Yakov Amihud‚ Harry DeAngelo‚ Linda DeAngelo‚ Diane Denis‚ Jim Hsieh‚ Omesh Kini‚ Erik Lie‚ John McConnell‚ Lalitha Naveen‚ Raghu Rau‚ Steve Smith‚ Jeff Wurgler‚ an anonymous referee
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Price discrimination in the English premier league Many scholars have described football as a global game or as a global language. In my opinion‚ football is the easiest sport to be part of in the world. Every child from different class groups is eager to play football‚ whether it is on the streets or on a world-class field with amazing equipment. As a child you do not see the economic side of football. You just want to play the game and it becomes a part of your livelihood. As you grow older‚ things
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Show on a diagram how a monopoly firm will make supernormal profits by restricting output. Discuss how the theory of contestable markets could impact on the price and output of a monopoly. Neo-classical theory defines monopoly as a market structure where one dominant firm supplies most or all output in the industry without facing competition because of high barriers to entry to the industry. The monopolist is a short run profit maximiser and due to the demand under a monopoly being moderately
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International Marketing What are the specific characteristics of the international marketing activities designed and implemented by small firms? As defined Robert W. Rowden (Thunderbird International Business Review‚ March-April 2001)‚ a small firm (with a maximum of 50 employees) is centralized and personalized through management of an owner-manager. This type of organization provides some advantage such as proximity between manager and employees because there is less hierarchy. Furthermore
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Introduction Corporate governance is a field in economics that investigates how to secure/motivate efficient management of corporations by the use of incentive mechanisms‚ such as contracts‚ organizational designs and legislation. This is often limited to the question of improving financial performance‚ for example‚ how the corporate owners can secure/motivate that the corporate managers will deliver a competitive rate of return. (Mathiesen‚ 2002). Another definition is "Corporate Governance
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