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Is force ever justified in preventing a State from acquiring nuclear weapons?

Dobra, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In order to provide a grounded argument, the present paper asks the following questions. Why do States acquire nuclear weapons? Why do finally States tend to prevent this acquisition? What does the use of force imply? This logical structure adduces the argument sustaining the avoidance of the...

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Emotions and the Optimality of Unfair Tournaments

Kräkel, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

We introduce a concept of emotions that emerge when workers compare their own performance with the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is analyzed within the framework of rank-order tournaments which are frequently used in...

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Integrity, respect for others, and ethics – three essential leadership qualities

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Ethics, respect for others and integrity (embracing respect for the law), should definitely be pre requisites for … regard and esteem at the workplace are prepared to sacrifice a life time's achievement and reputation within seconds. What is … trust our leaders to exercise a reasonable degree of integrity – both with respect to observing and practising the law, who …

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Integrity, respect for others, and ethics – three essential leadership qualities

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

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A Study on Rural Poverty Using Inequality Decomposition in Western Hills of Nepal: A Case of Gulmi District

Joshi, Niraj Prakash; Maharjan, Keshav Lall - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Involvement of higher proportion of economically active population in agriculture and laboring among the Occupational caste resulted into higher incidence of poverty, which is also severer and deeper. This resulted into as high as 71% incidence of poverty in Banjhkateri, purely remote village....

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Employment of ICT specialists in the EU (2004-2012)

Sabadash, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This study examines the evolution of the number of ICT-skilled workers employed in industry sectors in the EU28 over the period 2000-2012. Data are taken from the Eurostat Labour Force Statistics. It introduces a novel definition of ICT specialists that combines occupations and skills...

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Does a change of occupation lead to higher earnings?

Liberda, Barbara; Peczkowski, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The aim of this paper is to identify how the mobility between different types of broadly defined occupation (hired work … Surveys. Our hypothesis is that a change of occupation affects individual capability to earn income, controlling for the … occupation a person quits and the occupation a person starts, as well as age, education level and a permanent or temporary …

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An explanation of the occupational and educational structure of employment by means of multinomial logit

Peeters, H.M.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1990

The fixed coefficient manpower requirements approach provides information on shifts in the occupational and educational structure of employment over time, but neglects the substitution between the various occupations and educational groups. In this study shifts in the structure of 83 occupations...

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Informational opacity and honest certification

Pollrich, Martin; Wagner, Lilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies the interaction of information disclosure and reputational concerns in certification markets. We argue that by revealing less precise information a certifier reduces the threat of capture. Opaque disclosure rules may reduce profits but also constrain feasible bribes. For large...

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Use and Abuse of Authority

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

preferences in combination with reputation opportunities keep principals from abusing their power, leading to the widespread …

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