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High-tech left behind? : lessons from the Ruhr cybersecurity ecosystem for approaches to develop "left behind" places
Butzin, Anna; Flögel, Franz - 2022
The attention to "left behind" places triggered a debate about alternative development approaches. Unlike prosperous regions and their prioritisation on high-tech sectors, strategies for left behind places should shift to the foundational economy, community-based social innovation and...
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The role of industrial sector in the Brazilian territorial reconfiguration : new expressions for XXI century national dilemmas
Monteiro Neto, Aristides; Silva, Raphael de Oliveira; … - 2022
In this article, we discuss the current pattern of territorial reconfiguration of the Brazilian industry, its current forms, and motivations in order to problematize some of the most significant challenges of the current regional issue. We have brought new evidence of how it keeps...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429283
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Trade in value added : do we need new measures of competitiveness?
Lommatzsch, Kirsten; Silgoner, Maria Antoinette; … - 2017
competitiveness measures. We compile a broad dataset including value added trade, gross exports and conventional and value added based … real exchange rates. To sharply focus on external competitiveness, a new price competitiveness indicator is introduced, the … or cost competitiveness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587107
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705210
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Gender differences in tournament choices : risk preferences, overconfidence or competitiveness?
Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017
attributed the majority of the gender gap to gender differences in a separate 'competitiveness' trait. We re-examine this result … using a novel experimental technique that allows us to separate competitiveness from alternative explanations by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597970
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Does unfairness hurt women? : the effects of losing unfair competitions
Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023
How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … between the competitiveness of mothers and their daughters, but not between the competitiveness of mothers and their sons …
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Gouvernments [Governments], trade unions and the macroeconomy : an expository analysis of the political business cycle
Detken, Carsten; Gärtner, Manfred - 1990
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Lawyers, governance, and globalization : the diverging paths of "public interest law" across the Americas
Silva, Fábio de Sá e - 2017
In recent years, "public interest law" (PIL) has become a frequent component in conversations about law and policy around the globe. While this worldwide manifestation of a professional and political script that thus far seemed to be typically so American suggests a remarkable process of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060042
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Statistical governance and FDI in emerging economies
Kalckreuth, Ulf von - 2019
governance. Empirically, the paper investigates, for a sample of 98 emerging and developing countries, the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102658