Essays about: "Age discrimination"
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16. Building Older Persons’ “Resilience” Through Old-Age Pension Schemes in Georgia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Older persons’ rights are increasingly penetrating the Human Rights discourse in response to the surging aging of the world population. Old-age pension schemes are designed to protect older persons against vulnerabilities once they resign from the job market. READ MORE
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17. Transitioning from Care to Adulthood: Reintegration Experiences of Young People Leaving Residential Care in Ghana
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbeteAbstract : Studies on the young people’s transition from care have gained considerable attention in child protection discourse globally but in the African context, it is beginning to take form. Despite the incessant reintegration efforts occasioned by the quest to reform alternative childcare mechanisms in the Ghanaian context, little is known of the experiences of care leavers while they are leaving, and when they are out of care. READ MORE
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18. The Chilean Old-Age Pension System in Light of International Human Rights Law and the Inter-American Jurisprudence on the Right to Social Security
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : In the early 1980s, during the darkest years of Pinochet’s dictatorship, an apparently innocuous but radical decision was made: to implement an old-age pension system based on individual accounts mandatorily administered by private for-profit entities called ‘pension fund administrators’ (‘AFPs’, by its acronym in Castilian), in which the workers’ social security regarding old-age pensions was in practice totally dependent on their individual saving capacity during their working life. This was a completely novel system at that time, even at the international level, and part of a package of reforms allegedly directed to refound and modernise the country, deeply transforming the functions of the State and the role of the private sector, and causing a multiplicity of consequences felt until today in all possible areas of society and where, of course, human rights are no exception. READ MORE
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19. A systematic review and meta-analysis of age discrimination in recruitment
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för psykologi (PSY)Abstract : Correspondence and vignette experiments have already been an important part of measuring discrimination in hiring decisions for several decades, especially in terms of ethnic discrimination. Although the body of evidence is growing, no study has provided a systematic overview of age discrimination in recruitment before. READ MORE
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20. Age discrimination at Swedish Universities
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)Abstract : Discrimination at the schooling level has mainly been examined in terms of gender discrimination or discrimination against certain ethnical groups, while age discrimination mainly has been researched in the area of the labor market. In this paper, I examine the possible existence of age discrimination at Swedish Universities with the help of a difference-in-difference method by comparing standard exams graded both anonymously and non-anonymously. READ MORE
