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Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss and, as a result, firms are under increasing pressures from … stakeholders to reduce their negative impacts on living systems. In response, business attitudes, behaviors and strategies … regarding biodiversity are progressively changing, suggesting that interactions between business and biodiversity could go …
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a business perspective. First, we seek to analyze how Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) may be used by firms to … changes in business accounting and reporting standards. Because this would imply significant changes in business information …
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A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper solution of these problems and the development of the economics. A...
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Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), we find that cognitive skill measures are significant, robust, and large in magnitude. We use two databases of cognitive skills: estimates of...
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This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...
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firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms … faced and their business environment. The business environment includes physical infrastructure, the availability of an … stability of the macroeconomic environment. By comparing how different elements of the business environment affected firms in …
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Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000–2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...
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How do population ageing shocks affect the long-run macroeconomic performance of an economy? To answer this question we build a general equilibrium overlapping generations model of a closed economy featuring endogenous factor prices. Finitely-lived individuals are endowed with perfect foresight...
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Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...
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