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Despite the importance of negotiations in companies and their contribution to strategic corporate planning, researchers have not yet focused on assessing the development of negotiations in the future. To broaden the field of futures research in negotiations and to provide empirical guidance...
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critical approach to teaching business ethics, and critical management education offers a framework from which to question the … taken-for-granted mind-sets about ethics-in-business. Critical management education is claimed to find some theoretical …, subsumed by a more strategic economics focus to business management practice. This discourse of ethics-in-business is claimed …
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price, labour cost and speed of delivery. A number of areas and principles (i.e. business relationships, project management … is mediated by technology. Both in education and professional practice, design workers and students need to understand …
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One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient …
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Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the...
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This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...
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studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive … correlations between the level of education and the rate of technology adoption, however, do not necessarily reflect the true … causal effect of education on technology adoption. Relying on data from the Workplace and Employee Survey, this study …
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In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals …. We instrument years of education using reforms of compulsory education in nine different countries, and find that … education. Our main result is that books at home at age ten have had long-lasting beneficial effects on the individuals who were …
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earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than … by economic push factors and social status effects. Only at the highest education levels do we see evidence of pull …
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This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …
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