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Substance use, generation and time in the United States: The modifying role of gender for immigrant urban adolescents
Almeida, Joanna; Johnson, Renee M.; Matsumoto, Atsushi; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2069-2075
Although immigrant youth have lower rates of substance use than US born youth, whether substance use varies by … third generation youth. Additionally, immigrant boys who had been in the US ≤4 years had a significantly lower risk of … alcohol use. Among both boys and girls, all first and second generation youth were significantly less likely to report …
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Neighborhood context and immigrant children's physical activity
Brewer, Mackenzie; Kimbro, Rachel Tolbert - In: Social Science & Medicine 116 (2014) C, pp. 1-9
Physical activity is an important determinant of obesity and overall health for children, but significant race/ethnic and nativity disparities exist in the amount of physical activity that children receive, with immigrant children particularly at risk for low levels of physical activity. In this...
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Social integration in friendship networks: The synergy of network structure and peer influence in relation to cigarette smoking among high risk adolescents
Lakon, Cynthia M.; Valente, Thomas W. - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 9, pp. 1407-1417
Using data from a study of high risk adolescents in Southern California, U.S.A. (N=851), this study examined synergy … peer influences favoring drug use relates to more smoking among these high risk youth. …
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US manufacturing and vertical/horizontal intra-industry trade: examining the smooth adjustment hypothesis
White, Roger; Chen, Cheng - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 1-20
hypothesis (SAH). To our knowledge, this is the first examination of the SAH for the USA. The results of our empirical analysis …
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The extensive margin of intrafirm trade
Gao, Xiang - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 213-232
The firm-level approach to intra-industry trade reveals that the variation in the number of exporters or exported varieties (extensive margin) accounts for a greater share of the changes in aggregate trade than the variation in the average exports per firm variety (intensive margin). This paper...
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An analysis of India’s bilateral intra-industry trade in agricultural products
Varma, Poornima - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 83-95
showed that the agricultural trade between India and its two major trading partners, the USA and European Union, was mainly …
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Captive offshoring by US multinationals: measuring the domestic employment impacts of vertical FDI
Mullen, J.K.; Williams, Martin - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 21-34
The complex nature of ‘international outsourcing’ makes it difficult to quantify its employment and broader impacts on national economies. Indeed, available evidence on the extent of ‘offshoring’ by US firms is scant, rendering analyses of its economic impacts as...
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Principles of economics textbooks: lessons to be learned in light of the financial crisis
Madsen, Poul Thøis - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 3 (2012) 3, pp. 240-251
Has the financial crisis already changed US principles of economics textbooks? Rather little has changed in individual textbooks, but taken as a whole ten of the best-selling textbooks suggest rather encompassing changes of core curriculum. A critical analysis of these changes shows how...
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Public–private partnerships and public sector management reform: a comparative perspective
English, Linda M.; Skellern, Matthew - In: International Journal of Public Policy 1 (2005) 1/2, pp. 1-21
, Australia, USA and France. In some countries the term PPP is used to describe partnerships that provide infrastructure and …
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The long and the short of it: California's electricity crisis
Friedman, Lee S. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 4 (2009) 1/2, pp. 4-31
Unexpected problems sometimes arise when governments attempt to introduce competition. The problem considered herein is market power and its exercise during the California electricity crisis of 2000–2001. In introducing competition, both transitional and long-run opportunities for firms...
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