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Which foundations for the fight against poverty? Knowledge and motivation for Rawls and Wresinski
Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
justice are very different. This paper focuses on the issue of the knowledge and motivation necessary to fight poverty. We … individuals in the fight against poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789235
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Mapping Islamic Evolutionary in the Context of Social Justice and Poverty: A Complexity Approach
Hardiansyah, Suteja - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
like this, this paper discusses the dynamics of Islam in the context of social justice and poverty. Will be shown how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555434
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Assessing Absolute and Relative Poverty Trends with Limited Data in Cape Verde
Angel-Urdinola, Diego; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836273
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US Corporate Bond Yield Spread: A default risk debate
SHAH, Syed Muhammad Noaman Ahmed; KEBEWAR, mazen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
-hoc measurement methods used in existing empirical literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112444
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A study on job satisfaction and morale of commercial banks in Bangladesh
Islam, Jamal; Mohajan, Haradhan; Datta, Rajib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In today’s changing world the business environment is changing rapidly. The emergence of e-commerce and development of information and technology plays a significant role in the nature of work as well as their attitude towards the organization. We have been experiencing a tremendous growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260489
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Income redistribution: how to divide the pie?
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper, we elicit preferences of Swiss citizens for the allocation of income redistribution to different uses through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008. Neustadt and Zweifel (2009} provide an estimate of the total desired amount of income redistribution as a share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644924
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Status, fertility, growth and the great transition
Tournemaine, Frederic; Tsoukis, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We develop an overlapping generation model to examine how the relationship between status concerns, fertility and education affect growth performances. Results are threefold. First, we show that stronger status motives heighten the desire of parents to have fewer but better educated children,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836362
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Wealth and Status: Analyzing the Perceived Attractiveness of 2010 FIFA World Cup Players
Chi, Feng; Yang, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Dating back to Veblen (1899), theoretical and empirical studies about conspicuous consumption have largely stipulated associations between social status and income. This paper focuses on the supply of status and tests the underlying assumption by using a data on the attractiveness ratings for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526977
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Culture Values Entrepreneurship and Growth
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We integrate a social norm which associates status to accumulation of capital and consumption into a simple model of endogenous growth. We show that societies which place a greater weight of cultural values on stock of accumulated capital as opposed to consumption will experience fast growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059080
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Körpergröße und soziale Stellung von Schülern der Hohen Karlsschule im 18. Jahrhundert
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Examines the height of German youth in the late eighteenth century, and documents the very large differences in height between the lower and upper classes. Shows that the height of the upper class did not decline at the end of the 18th century as did that of the common men.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403929