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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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can allow a transfer of labour from the public sector to the business sector at unchanged educational output. On the other … business sector might have an impact of less than 1% on GDP. However, some trade-off can appear in the short run because input …
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We study the relationship between wages, human capital accumulation and work organisation in Morocco using matched worker-firm data for Metallurgical-electrical and Textile-clothing firms. While wages are found to rise with all human capital characteristics, returns to education and experience...
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We conduct a case study of the linkages of task organization, human capital accumulation and wages in Morocco, using matched worker-firm data for Electrical-mechanical and Textile-clothing industries. In order to integrate task organization into the interacting processes of workers' training and...
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We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating social capital. Social capital only serves as input in the production of human capital and it involves a cost in terms of the final good. We show that in contrast to existing alternative specifications, this setting assures that...
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This paper presents a new dataset on educational attainment (primary, secondary and tertiary schooling) at the world level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn...
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