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Feldman, Barry - EconWPA - 2002

An expanded model of value in cooperative games is presented in which value has either a linear or a proportional mode … (1989, 1992) value have a linear mode and an input basis. The egalitarian value (Kalai and Samet (1985)) has a linear mode …

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Marketing as an entrance barrier into the fashion market

Vieira, Pedro Cosme Costa - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper I intend to model a firm decision of entrance into a profitable fashion market where fashion results from … fashion market and that ii) when incumbent firm accommodates the other firm a la Cournot there is no pure strategy Nash … equilibrium. The properties of the model seem to be in accordance with the persistence in time of fashion brands. …

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Afghan unaccompanied minors in the Netherlands: Far away from home and protected?

Siegel M.; Buil C. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This study aims to provide insights into the migration situation of Afghan unaccompanied minors UAMs in the Netherlands and the extent to which the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child CRC is respected. This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the largest group of UAMs in the...

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Centre-based versus home-based childcare

Bauchmüller R. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

Centrebased childcare is seen as a public investment to facilitate maternalemployment. Recent theoretical research proposes that such investmentspotentially lead to substantial gains in child development and thus to high returnsfor society as a whole. However, the empirical evidence is still...

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Fathers' use of parental leave. What do we know?

Zhelyazkova N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This paper reviews the the literature on fathers use of parental leave. Parental leave is a work-life reconciliation instrument with great potential to bring about a more equal distribution of paid and unpaid work between men and women. However, policy evaluation studies reveal that simply...

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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Risky Behavior

Aughinbaugh, Alison; Gittleman, Maury - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the impact of maternal employment during a child’s first three years and during adolescence on his or her decisions to engage in a range of risky behaviors: smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, using marijuana and other drugs, engaging in sex and committing crimes. Using...

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Discovering and explaining work-family strategies of parents in Luxembourg

Zhelyazkova N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

The presented analysis discovers and explains typical patterns of work-family reconciliation for parents who had a child in the same period 2003 and in the same country Luxembourg, thus facing the same macroeconomic and institutional conditions. Work-family trajectories are reconstructed as...

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Parental leave take up and return to work of mothers in Luxembourg: An application of the model of nested dichotomies

Zhelyazkova N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper analyses the use of parental leave after birth of a child for working mothers. Even though employment rates of women in industrialized countries are rising, women continue to assume the primary responsibility for caring for young children after they are born. Therefore it is...

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The Nature of Unemployment in Urban Ethiopia

Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of incidence and duration and find that most variables...

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Buying Organic Food in France : Shopping Habits and Trust

Sirieix, Lucie; Schaer, Brigitte - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we attempt to compare the responses of consumers and professionals to questions related to organic food retailing, in order to highlight the differences and the similarities of viewpoints between them and to understand the links between consumer perception of organic food and the...

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