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Comparative Public Support for Conserving Reptile Species is High: Australian Evidence and its Implications

Tisdell, Clement A.; Wilson, Clevo; Swarna Nantha, Hemanath - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004

likeability of the species, their degree of endangerment, ethical considerations as well as knowledge are examined and found to be …

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Public Support for Sustainable Commercial Harvesting of Wildlife: An Australian Case Study

Tisdell, Clement A.; Wilson, Clevo; Swarna Nantha, Hemanath - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004

each of the species and their degree of endangerment based on IUCN Red List rankings is established and found to be an … found to rise with the degree of endangerment of species. While the likeability of a species has some influence on whether … endangerment of a species appears to be the major influence here. Even so, this does not imply majority support for the harvest of …

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Comparison of Funding and Demand for the Conservation of the Charismatic Koala with those for the Critically Endangered Wombat Lasiorhinus krefftii

Tisdell, Clement A.; Swarna Nantha, Hemanath - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2005

that for the koala despite the koala’s immense popularity. The critically endangered status of the northern-hairy nosed … wombat and the more secure conservation status of the koala is a factor likely to have influenced the comparative willingness … funding of other species involving differences in charisma and endangerment. …

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Language diversity in urban landscapes: An econometric study

Onofri, Laura; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Cenoz, Jasone; … - 2008

This multidisciplinary study adopts econometric analysis for investigating how different characteristics determine the choice of the language used in the signs of a shopping street. We work with a dataset containing about 200 observations collected in the main shopping streets of the cities of...

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From Statistical to Geolinguistic Data: Mapping and Measuring Linguistic Diversity

Barni, Monica - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The aim of this paper is describing a new methodology for mapping and measuring linguistic diversity in a territory. The three methods that have been created by the Centro di eccellenza della ricerca Osservatorio linguistico permanente dell’italiano diffuso fra stranieri e delle lingue...

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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018

This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...

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Linguistic diversity, school language of instruction policy, and learning outcomes across Asia and the Pacific

Igarashi, Takiko; Suryadarma, Daniel; Yadav, Pooja - 2023

Children appear to learn better when taught in their mother tongue. This finding gives rise to an argument that mother tongue-based multilingual education could effectively improve learning outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. However, the challenges of implementing an effective...

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The value of language skills

Grenier, Gilles; Zhang, Weiguo - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)

In today's globalized world, people are increasingly mobile and often need to communicate across different languages. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but even non-migrants must often learn other languages...

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Ethnic diversity makes me sick! An examination of ethnic diversity’s effect on health outcomes

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Ocloo, Janet Exornam; … - 2015

This study hypothesizes a relationship between ethnic diversity and health outcomes. We explore the effects of ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity (measured by indices of ethnic and linguistic fractionalization) on 30 health outcome variables in a cross-section of 87 countries. We explore...

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The value of language skills

Grenier, Gilles - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

In today’s globalized world, people are increasingly mobile and often need to communicate across different languages. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but even non-migrants must often learn other languages...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405034