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The Status Of Uniform Guidelines On Employee Selection Procedures: Legal Developments And Future Prospects. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh, James Guseh Oct 2000

The Status Of Uniform Guidelines On Employee Selection Procedures: Legal Developments And Future Prospects. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh, James Guseh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.


The Evolution Of An Issue: The Rise And Decline Of Affirmative Action, Euel Elliott, Andrew Ewoh May 2000

The Evolution Of An Issue: The Rise And Decline Of Affirmative Action, Euel Elliott, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

This article examines the development of the affirmative action issue since its inception, and compares its dynamics and evolution with the broader civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It identifies and discusses three periods or phases of the affirmative action regime. This vein of research helps provide at least a partial explanation for why policies in related areas of civil rights may produce different outcomes, and explicates the broad resistance to key elements of the anti-discrimination effort of the last three decades. A tentative model based on the congruence of the policy stance of political institutions to public …


Challenges For African Democritization In The New Millennium. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh Feb 2000

Challenges For African Democritization In The New Millennium. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.


On The Ellison–Glaeser Geographic Concentration Index, Edward J. Feser Jan 2000

On The Ellison–Glaeser Geographic Concentration Index, Edward J. Feser

Edward J Feser

I use confidential employment data to investigate the empirical properties of a recent industry geographic concentration index (and related index of industry co-agglomeration) proposed by Ellison and Glaeser (1997). The results show that Ellison and Glaeser’s theoretical finding that their concentration measures are robust to differences in the level of spatial aggregation in the underlying employment data does not generally hold in practice. This implies that sensitivity testing for alternative spatial units should accompany any analysis with the concentration measures.


Strengthening Barriers To Terrorist Attacks Against Cities: Physical And Legal Strategies, John Kiefer Dec 1999

Strengthening Barriers To Terrorist Attacks Against Cities: Physical And Legal Strategies, John Kiefer

John J. Kiefer

No abstract provided.


Resource Security And The Canada-Us Pacific Salmon Dispute, Christopher Gore Dec 1999

Resource Security And The Canada-Us Pacific Salmon Dispute, Christopher Gore

Christopher D Gore

No abstract provided.