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Comparisons in gender wage differentials and discrimination between Germany and the United Kingdom (2001)
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Due to the lack of consistent data, direct and robust comparisons of cross-country labour markets have been virtually impossible. This study uses a new panel data series that controls for inconsistencies, thus overcoming this problem. This study esti... Read More about Comparisons in gender wage differentials and discrimination between Germany and the United Kingdom.

A multinomial logit nondiscriminatory approach to estimating racial wage and occupational discrimination (2001)
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This paper combines a technique to measure nondiscriminatory wage structures with a multinomial logit model to estimate both occupational racial discrimination and within-occupation racial wage underpayment and overpayment. Using a recent South Afric... Read More about A multinomial logit nondiscriminatory approach to estimating racial wage and occupational discrimination.

Management accounting in companies adapting to structural change and volatility in transition economies: A South African study (2001)
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South Africa has undergone fundamental political and structural changes over the last decade. These are affecting the operations of companies in South Africa both directly and indirectly through associated market volatility. This paper reports on res... Read More about Management accounting in companies adapting to structural change and volatility in transition economies: A South African study.

Deep and surface approaches to learning within introductory accounting: A phenomenographic study (2001)
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This paper reports the findings of a phenomenographic research study which sought to identify students' approaches to learning introductory accounting and their conceptions of accounting. The findings reveal that, in common with other disciplines, de... Read More about Deep and surface approaches to learning within introductory accounting: A phenomenographic study.

The concept of an accounting regime (2001)
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This paper develops and illustrates the concept of an accounting regime. The concept is mobilized in order to explore the nature and power of accounting in totality and to identify its dimensions. Drawing on the work of Anthony Giddens, we portray an... Read More about The concept of an accounting regime.

German wage underpayment: An investigation into labor market inefficiency and discrimination (2001)
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Using stochastic panel wage frontiers, this paper estimates the relative underpayment of females and males in the reunified Germany. The estimates are initially applied to discrimination analysis. It finds that females have higher underpayment and th... Read More about German wage underpayment: An investigation into labor market inefficiency and discrimination.

A multilateral decomposition of racial wage differentials in the 1994 South African labour market (2000)
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This article develops a new multilateral decomposition procedure for the analysis of wage differentials and applies this to the racial wage hierarchy in the South African labour market. Using micro-data on male workers from the 1994 October Household... Read More about A multilateral decomposition of racial wage differentials in the 1994 South African labour market.

Worlds apart: Students' experiences of learning introductory accounting (2000)
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This paper argues that, whilst a substantial amount of educational research has been conducted within the introductory accounting curriculum, there is scope for alternative research founded on a particular view of learning, that of social constructiv... Read More about Worlds apart: Students' experiences of learning introductory accounting.

Achieving Empathy and Engagement: A practical approach to the design, conduct and reporting of phenomenographic research (2000)
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Phenomenography is a methodology which has been quietly influential in research on higher education, having been the basis of many studies of approaches to learning and student understandings of a wide range of concepts in a variety of disciplines. T... Read More about Achieving Empathy and Engagement: A practical approach to the design, conduct and reporting of phenomenographic research.

What is the ‘world’ of phenomenography? (1998)
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Phenomenographic research (especially that which aims to uncover student conceptions of key disciplinary concepts) is subjected to critical review on two main fronts. (1) We consider the adequacy with which research procedures for revealing student c... Read More about What is the ‘world’ of phenomenography?.