Towards Capacity Building: Rejecting Hiring Practices Based on Accent and Skin Colour

Towards design-based knowledge-building practices in teaching

This paper explores knowledge building in a community identified by Bielaczyc and Collins (2006) as a hotbed community—a community in which knowledge creation has taken on a life of its own. The practices of six elementary schoolteachers are analyzed to inform the development of teachers’ knowledge-building practices and to better understand how teachers develop and sustain innovative knowledge...

Hiring Practices, Employment Protection and Temporary Jobs

This paper examines the effects of a two-tier reform of the Employment Protection Legislation that increases flexibility at the margin by allowing firms to hire workers on temporary positions and investigates under which conditions temporary jobs are stepping stones to permanent employment. The analysis has far focused on the role of temporary jobs in employers adjustment to economic shocks and...

Political skill: explaining the effects of nonnative accent on managerial hiring and entrepreneurial investment decisions.

We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although nonnative accent is a complex signal, its effects on assessments of the speakers' political skill are something that speakers can actively mitigate; this makes it an important bias to understand. In Study 1, White and Asia...

Robust Multi-Colour-Based Skin Detection

Automatic skin detection is a component of various imaging applications, such as face detection and tracking, content categorization, image enhancement, adaptive compression, etc. Colour-based methods have proven to be well suited for this task, but generally suffer from a type of false detection which adversely influences the aforementioned tasks, namely the confident detection of hair regions...

The gap between education preferences and hiring practices.