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Legacy writing among the elderly: conceptual bases, dimensioning and a proposed scale for measuring motivations
Guillemot, Samuel; Urien, Bertrand - HAL - 2010
This article concerns a relatively unknown phenomenon in marketing that has become, however, extremely popular among older adults: legacy writing. While the writing of "ego-documents" has been the subject of many studies in gerontology, sociology and, above all, literature, research in marketing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004253
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Intergenerational correlation of domestic work: Does gender matter?
Solaz, Anne; Wolff, Francois-Charles - HAL - 2013
Despite the increasing prevalence of dual-earner couples, women still perform the bulk of domestic and parental tasks within the household. In this paper, we investigate the role of the parental model in the persistence of this gender inequality. We study the possible correlation between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899796
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Intergenerational transmission of the human capital: case of the heterogeneous families
Hlaimi, Stéphane - HAL - 2006
achievement, the parents modify their choices of education or of training for the juniors given returns and endowments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792161
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El marco de la Cooperación Económica entre Brasil y África Subsahariana: Angola, Mozambique y Sudáfrica
Menes, Danthe Damián Valderrama - HAL - 2012
The study of the southern economies, among which emerging countries such as Brazil and several of Africa stand out, has acquired increasing international importance. In this article south-south cooperation between the South American giant and Sub-Saharan Africa is analyzed, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820522
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BASIC effect on global climate governance. Power changes and regime shifts
Berthaud, Pierre; Voituriez, Tancrède - HAL - 2013
In this paper we address the issue of the indeterminacy of climate change negotiations and examine the role played by the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) in this indeterminacy. Mobilising the analytical tools of international political economy (IPE), we show that changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820964
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Who benefits the most from peer effects within ethnic group ? Empirical evidence on the South African Labour Market
Ferrant, Gaëlle; Bourquin, Yannick - HAL - 2011
This paper provides evidence that local social interactions within etnic groups may explain the puzzling variations in labour-market outcomes across individuals. Peer effects work first by creating pressure on labor-market participation, second, by conveying information about job opportunities...
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Smallholders' use of Bt-cotton under unfavourable context: lessons from South Africa
Fok, Michel; Gouse, Marnus; Hofs, Jean-Luc; Kirsten, Johann - HAL - 2008
The bulk of the South African cotton crop is produced by large scale commercial farmers. Therefore it might be misleading to present South Africa's impressive Genetically Modified Cotton (GMC) adoption figures as evidence of successful GMC use by smallholder farmers. The total South African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792512
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Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments? Evidence From Italy
Belzil, Christian; Leonardi, Marco - HAL - 2006
probability of entering higher education. Differences in ability(ies) and in parental human capital are much more important. in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793102
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Aid and Universal Primary Education
D'Aiglepierre, Rohen; Wagner, Laurent - HAL - 2011
Universal Primary Education (UPE) is one of the main objectives of development aid. However, very little empirical …, more disaggregated and more reliable data is used to study the relationship between aid to education and educational …. Our results are very robust and indicate that aid to primary education has a strong effect on primary school enrollment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793517
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A microfoundation for adaptability returns to schooling and technological complexity
Cerdan, Ophélie; Decreuse, Bruno; Granier, Pierre - HAL - 2010
workers are located on a knowledge space. Education widens the measure of the knowledge subset that the worker embodies, while …, risk aversion motivates a precautionary demand for education, which in turn creates income risk through firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793597