We investigated the impact of employment equity legislation, FCP compliance regulations, and the absence of these requirements on employment equity and diversity practices of Canadian firms. Our results indicate that CEOs of EEA firms have more proactive attitudes towards diversity. EEA firms, and to some extent FCP firms, also indicated higher levels of practices (e.g., policies, recruiting, t...

We study unfair permutations, which are generated by letting [Formula: see text] players draw numbers and assuming that player [Formula: see text] draws [Formula: see text] times from the unit interval and records her largest value. This model is natural in the context of partitions: the score of the [Formula: see text]th player corresponds to the multiplicity of the summand [Formula: see text]...

port efficient allocation of resources and growth in an economy. The ease with which contracts can be enforced varies dramatically across economies. According to data from the World Bank’s Doing Business project, the time required to enforce a contract (from the moment the plaintiff files the lawsuit until payment is made) ranges from about five months in Singapore and seven in New Zealand to m...

Neste artigo, propõe-se a análise do filme Una giornata particolare (1977), dirigido por Ettore Scola, evidenciando elementos de sua construção estética relacionados ao momento histórico e político da Itália Fascista (1922-1943). Ao abordar no plano diegético este período, o destaca dia 6 maio 1938, em que Hitler Mussolini se encontram Roma, mostrando como cultura totalitária seus símbolos pene...