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Olivier, Bos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Recent papers show that all-pay auctions are better at raising money for charity than first-price auctions with … complete information. In this paper, we consider a framework on charity auctions with asymmetric bidders under some incomplete … seriously considered when one wants to organize a charity auction. …

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Entanglement by Genes or Shares; Hamilton´s rule of kin selection revisited

Friedrich, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

degree including charity can be understood within the ensemble concept. In an ensemble transfer of substrate from a source to …

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Negative economic consequences of ethical campaigns?: Market data evidence

Yamamoto, Wataru - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study demonstrates how ethical attributes of goods affect market outcomes on the basis of market data and actual ethical campaigns. Among the various types of such attributes, such as eco-label and fair trade label, I focus on cause-related marketing (CRM), which economists study less...

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The role of higher education stratification in the reproduction of social inequality in the labour market. A comparative study of recent European graduates

Triventi, Moris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper analyses the role of institutional stratification within higher education (course length, fields of study and institutional quality) in mediating the relationship between social origin and labour market outcomes (wage and occupational status) in a comparative perspective. In the first...

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Nierówności społeczne w kontekście badania kapitału społecznego ludzi starych. Przykład Domu Pomocy Społecznej i Uniwersytetu Trzeciego Wieku w Białymstoku

Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Complexity of the changes taking place in modern societies makes it is necessary to deepen the analysis of the impact of social inequality on the activity of old people. Dissemination of new technologies and organizational forms allows solving many social problems and improving the quality of...

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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok

Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...

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Political dynasties and poverty: Resolving the “chicken or the egg” question

Mendoza, Ronald; Beja Jr, Edsel; Venida, Victor; Yap, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

"Political dynasty" refers to the situation wherein members of the same family are occupying elected positions either in sequence for the same position, or simultaneously across different positions. In the Philippines, political dynasties are prevalent in areas with more severe poverty. Two...

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Political dynasties and poverty: Resolving the “chicken or the egg” question

Mendoza, Ronald; Beja Jr, Edsel; Venida, Victor; Yap … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Political dynasties—members of the same family occupying elected positions sequentially for the same position or simultaneously across different positions—have become a common feature in many developing countries with democratic political systems. In the Philippines, for instance, political...

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From the Tallest to (One of) the Fattest: The Enigmatic Fate of the American Population in the 20th Century

Komlos, John; Baur, Marieluise - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Within the course of the 20th century the American population went through a metamorphosis from being the tallest in the world, to being among the most overweight. The American height advantage over Western and Northern Europeans was between 3 and 9 cm in the middle of the 19th century....

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The Biological Standard of Living in the two Germanies.

Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Physical stature is used as a proxy for the biological standard of living in the two Germanies before and after unification in an analysis of a cross-sectional sample (1998) of adult heights, as well as among military recruits of the 1990s. West Germans tended to be taller than East Germans...

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