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Changing business perceptions regarding biodiversity: from impact mitigation towards new strategies and practices
Houdet, Joël; Trommetter, Michel; Weber, Jacques - HAL - 2009
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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Accounting for changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services from a business perspective
Houdet, Joël; Pavageau, Charlotte; Trommetter, Michel; … - HAL - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793760
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A Rational Irrational Man?
Harin, Alexander - HAL - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794157
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Human capital : a theoretical and empirical analysis, with special reference to education
Becker, Gary Stanley - 1975 - 2. ed.
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Generational Conflict, Human Capital Accumulation, and Economic Growth
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2000
Worldwide, dependency ratios are forecast to increase dramatically in the next 50 years. A great deal of attention has been devoted to understanding the changes in fiscal policies that must' take place to accommodate these changes. In contrast, less effort has been concentrated on studying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470988
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Controlling Stocks and Flows to Promote Quality : The Environment, With Applications to Physical and Human Capital
Keohane, Nathaniel O. - 2000
Our analysis melds two traditional approaches to promoting quality. The first is restoring the stock of quality. The second is curbing its flow of deterioration. Although both approaches are widely used in real world settings, analytic models have tended to focus on one strategy or the other. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471023
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471064
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Youths at Nutritional Risk : Malnourished or Misnourished?
Bhattacharya, Jay - 2000
We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants of poor nutritional outcomes among American youths. One strength of our analysis is that we focus on an array of nutritional outcomes, and we find in fact that the determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471075
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Human Capital, Heterogeneity, and Estimated Degrees of Intergenerational Mobility
Han, Song - 2000
Some of the important implications of the parental investment model of intergenerational mobility have been derived under the assumption that parental income is the main source of heterogeneity. We explicitly model the variability and inheritability of innate' earnings ability and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471089