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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...

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A Caseworker Like Me : Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...

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Alert citizenry as an antidote to war

Corneo, Giacomo - 2023

What can be done to reduce the likelihood of future wars? While states' decisions that bear on war are ultimately made … future wars. This thesis can be broken down into two claims: first, there is a war bias of political leaders; second, people … citizens have substantially divergent interests with respect to policies that risk the outbreak of war. Political leaders may …

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Current interest in the theory of organizational path dependence: A short update on the occasion of the 2019 AMR Decade Award

Sydow, Jörg; Schreyögg, Georg; Koch, Jochen - 2020

This discussion paper reports and reflects on the reception of our article "Organizational path dependence: Opening the black box", which was published in 2009 in the Academy of Management Review and granted the AMR Decade Award in 2019. While we were invited by the editor of the journal to...

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Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment of OECD Countries 1991-2001

Gast, Michael - 2005

Using a fixed-effects panel data approach, FDI flows of 22 OECD countries are explained by gravity equations over the period 1991-2001. It is distinguished between all available observations, Intra-EU25 observations only, and observations not belonging to the EU25 area in order to control for...

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Wie wirken gemeldete SPS-Maßnahmen? Ein Gravitationsmodell des Rindfleischhandels der EU

Kramb, Marc; Herrmann, Roland - 2009

For decades, nontariff trade barriers (NTBs) have been regarded as more problematic policy instruments than tariffs in international trade negotiations. This is due to the fact that trade impacts of nontariff trade barriers are less transparent than those of tariffs. Tariffication of nontariff...

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Crisis and sustainable business in Central and Eastern Europe: Haniel-Seminar discussion paper

Kovalev, Mikhail M.; Lomagin, Nikita A.; Sutyrin, Sergei F. - 2009

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Fly with the eagles or scratch with the chickens? Zum Herdenverhalten von Wechselkursprognostikern

Pierdzioch, Christian; Schäfer, Dirk; Stadtmann, Georg - 2010

In diesem Beitrag wird analysiert, ob Wechselkursprognosen Anhaltspunkte dafür liefern, dass Prognostiker ein so genanntes Herdenverhalten zeigen. Auf der Basis unterschiedlicher theoretischer Modellansätze wird skizziert, warum Prognostiker einen Anreiz haben könnten, einem Herdentrieb zu...

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Digitalising the fiscal contract: An interdisciplinary framework for empirical inquiry

von Haldenwang, Christian - 2020

Tax systems worldwide face far-reaching transformations through the implementation of digital technologies. A growing body of academic literature addresses these transformations and explores how digitalisation is affecting the operations and efficiency of revenue agencies, and taxpayer...

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Select Birth Cohorts

MacMinn, Richard; Weber, Frederik - 2009

Worldwide demographic changes and their implications for governments, corporations, and individuals have been in the focus of public interest for quite some time due to the fiscal risk related to adequate retirement benefits. Through a more detailed analysis of mortality data an additional type...

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