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Jobs for Youth/Des emplois pour les jeunes: New Zealand 2008
2008
countries including New Zealand. Each report contains a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people, an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012447767
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Risk attitudes and Medicare Part D enrollment decisions
Vetter, Stefan; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The new Medicare Part D program provides prescription drug coverage for older Americans through highly subsidized and tightly regulated plans offered by private insurance firms. For most eligible individuals without coverage from other sources, obtaining Part D coverage would be rational, but it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011140979
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Employment and Skills Strategies in Israel
2015
This report delivers evidence-based and practical recommendations on how to better support employment and economic …, which join-up efforts and achieve stronger outcomes across employment, training, and economic development policies. Co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012448965
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Jobs for Youth/Des emplois pour les jeunes: United States 2009
2009
States contains a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people, an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012448257
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How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?
Thomas, Deckers; Armin, Falk; Fabian, Kosse; Hannah, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We measure a family's SES by the mother's and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252547
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Heterogeneous Contestants and Effort Provision in Tournaments - an Empirical Investigation with Professional Sports Data
Berger, Johannes; Nieken, Petra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We empirically investigate if tournaments between heterogeneous contestants are less intense. To test our hypotheses we use professional sports data from the TOYOTA Handball-Bundesliga, the major handball league in Germany. Using either differences in betting odds or rankings to measure ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490450
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Allocation of Authority when a Person is not a Robot
Li, Jianpei; Wu, Yanhui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We formalize a conception of authority, which is commonly defined as the right of controlling a person’s actions embedded in human assets in sociology. Due to the inalienable property of human assets, the contractible formal authority is hard to verify and enforce, while real authority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785789
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‘A Nation of Poets and Thinkers’ - Less So with Eastern Enlargement? Austria and Germany
Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement will lead to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with new firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785873
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Employment and Skills Strategies in the United States
2014
global financial crisis. The Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme of the OECD has developed … boosting quality employment. Each country review examines the capacity of employment services and training providers to … Employment and Training Agency (SETA); the Northern Rural and Training and Employment Consortium (NoRTEC); the Southeast Michigan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012449029
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Jobs for Youth/Des emplois pour les jeunes: Japan 2009
2008
studies, surveys the main barriers to employment for young people in Japan, assesses of the adequacy and effectiveness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012440572