‘Rorting the System’: Police Detectives, Diversity, and Workplace Advantage

Diversity in the Workplace

An unbiased employer engages in optimal sequential search by drawing from two equally quali…ed subpopulations of job candidates who di¤er in their “discourse systems.” That is, minorities convey noisier unbiased signals of ability than non-minorities. We show that when the employer is selective, minorities are underrepresented in the workforce, …red at greater rates, and underrepresented among ...

phylogeography and genetic diversity of the lesser mouse- eared bat (myotis blythii) in iran

in current study, 63 samples of bat populations collected from differ regions were used for evaluating the geographic variations. twenty cranial and dental characters for traditional morphometric and landmarks method on the ventral, dorsal skull and mandible for geometry morphometric studies were used. statistical analyses of traditional morphometric and geometry morphometric data indicated low...

Social trust, workplace organization, and the comparative advantage of nations

In this paper, I consider a specific channel through which trust between parties to an exchange can go on to affect nations’ comparative advantage in certain industries. My approach revolves around the autonomy that employers (principals) grant to workers (agents), which is a key feature of workplace organization. I hypothesize that social trust generates a comparative advantage in industries w...

Police Role: A Case of Diversity, The

The Design Detectives

Isaac Asimov once wrote, “An exoheresy may cause scientists to bestir themselves for the purposes of reexamining the bases of their beliefs, even if only to gather firm and logical reasons for the rejection of the exoheresy-and that is good.” By an exoheresy Asimov meant a challenge to scientific orthodoxy that arises from outside the scientific community. He was writing specifically about Imma...