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The Present as a Legacy of the Past: The Labour Market, Inequality and Poverty in South Africa
Berg, Servaas van der; Bhorat, Haroon - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 1999
This paper provides an analysis of poverty in South Africa by focussing on the labour market. Gauteng, South Africa … compared in-migrants to non-migrants and intra-Gauteng migrants in order to provide insight into special benefits or challenges … labourers and the approximation of economic links between Gauteng and other provinces as represented by remittances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395759
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Modelling Vulnerability and Low Earnings in the South African Labour Market
Leibbrandt, Murray; Bhorat, Haroon - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 1999
and comprehensive model of earnings in the South African labour market. Gauteng, South Africa's economic powerhouse, has …-migrants and intra-Gauteng migrants in order to provide insight into special benefits or challenges that in-migrant households may … economic links between Gauteng and other provinces as represented by remittances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395760
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Measuring Poverty in South Africa
Woolard, Ingrid; Leibbrandt, Murray - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 1999
are so pronounced that the profile of poverty is robust to changes in the underlying measurement assumptions. Gauteng … migration to and migrant labour in Gauteng by using the 2001 Census and the September 2002 Labour Force Survey. South African … outside of Gauteng, or individuals whose most recent move in the 1996-2001 period was to Gauteng from one of the other eight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395717
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Efficiency and economies of scale in academic knowledge production
Felderer, Bernhard; Obersteiner, Michael - 1999
This paper investigates the properties of knowledge production in academic research using a panel of 17 OECD countries reaching from 1989 to 1996. The production process is modelled using capital and labour as inputs and the number of published international journal articles and/or the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291910
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Die Qualität von Berufsakademien aus Unternehmenssicht - eine empirische Untersuchung
Naujoks, Petra - 2007
Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Qualität von Berufsakademien aus Arbeitgebersicht. Es erfolgt zunächste eine Aufarbeitung der theoretischen Grundlagen für Dienstleistungsqualität, insbesondere aus der Perspektive von Bildungsinstitutionen, insbesondere von Berufsakademien. Anschließend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304287
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Data Policies and Data Archives: A New Paradigm for Academic Publishing in Economic Sciences?
Vlaeminck, Sven; Herrmann, Lisa-Kristin - In: New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of …, (pp. 145-155). 2015
In our paper we summarise the findings of an empirical study in which a sample of 346 journals in economics and business studies were examined. We regard both the extent and the quality of journals’ data policies, which should facilitate replications of published empirical research. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348189
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Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure
Colussi, Tommaso - 2015
This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified based on their academic histories. Results show that an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401672
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The Theory of Interhybridity: Socio-political Dimensions and Migration
Aliu, Armando - 2013
The Western Balkans integration within the EU has started a legal process which is the rejection of former communist legal/political approaches and the transformation of former communist institutions. Indeed, the EU agenda has brought vertical/horizontal integration and Europeanization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333090
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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa
Léautier, Frannie A. - 2014
Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343254
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The importance of philanthropic activity and government social welfare for society and the economy
Waniak-Michalak, Halina - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 10 (2014) 1, pp. 49-59
The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the significance of the activity run by philanthropic organizations in Poland for the benefit of society and the economy in the light of the social welfare of governmental organizations. Verification of hypotheses was conducted using different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551419