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Community Enterprises - An Institutional Innovation

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce privately owned resources based on central authority and within well-defined boundaries. In recent times, a new kind of enterprise has emerged that we call Community Enterprises. They...

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Labor Market Policies and European Crises

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...

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Can Online Delivery Increase Access of Education?

Goodman, Joshua - 2017

Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research … online education affects the number of people pursuing formal education. We study the Georgia Institute of Technology …'s Online M.S. in Computer Science, the earliest model to combine the inexpensive nature of online education with a highly …

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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie F. - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century U.S. White Statures

Carson, Scott A. - 2009

Using a source of 19th century U.S. state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates...

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Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women

Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - 2021

the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education … role in explaining the observed rise in female education and employment since the 1960s. But without equal opportunities …

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Behavior Under Social Pressure : Empty Italian Stadiums and Referee Bias

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Priks, Mikael - 2021

This paper studies how social pressure affects the behavior of soccer referees. We make use of an attractive source of exogenous variation in the number of spectators at matches. Due to recent hooligan violence, the Italian government has implemented a regulation that forces some soccer teams to...

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Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women

Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - CESifo - 2013

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Tax Policy in a Model of Search with Training

Boone, Jan; Mooij, Ruud A. De - CESifo - 2000

This paper develops a model of search on the labour market with training. The model reveals how the tax system can restore the social optimum if the Hosio s condition is not satisfied in the private equilibrium. Furthermore, the effects are explored of a second-best reform from average to...

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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century US White Statures

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2009

Using a source of 19th century US state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406385

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