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. The second measures the extent of the gender performance gap among informal entrepreneurs and explores the existence of … gender-differentiated effects of sharing norms and the allocation of tasks within the household on the technical efficiency …
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/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a qualitative study which generated interviews with students, employers and higher education … selection of students, employers and higher education staff from London. A larger selection of institutions outside London could …
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gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …
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highlight a definite gender pattern, with a strong association between early disadvantage and obesity in women, but not in men …
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Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in exercising an economic activity and in assuming their domestic activities. Husbands’ insufficient or inexistent income has increased women’s role in household survival strategies, but...
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people in Peru, by analysing the role played by aspirations in the investment in education of indigenous children. To address …
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Noting that the use of Internet is not only utilitarian but experiential indeed cultural, this dissertation describes in depth and explains what people lives in their online consumer experiences. This description is done through the three great social and personal changes brought by the advent...
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In order to improve financial access to complementary health insurance (CHI) in France, a CHI voucher program, called Aide Complémentaire Santé (ACS) was introduced in 2005. Four years later, the program covered only 18% of the eligible population. Two main hypotheses are put forward to...
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The competition between SEAQ International and Continental European equity markets to attract transactions in the most actively traded European stocks has intensified since the late 1980s. Because their transactions are organised in a different manner, and because reporting standards are not the...
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Ce papier présente les résultats d’une étude exploratoire afin de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension du rôle des alliances stratégiques des PME pour concilier entre les innovations d’exploration et les innovations d’exploitation. La nouvelle approche des innovations et des...
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