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compensation, women are more reluctant than men to choose tournaments. These gender difference experiments have all relied on a … such as piece-rate and group pay, and removes the gender difference in compensation choices. I then examine between and …
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was undertaken essentially to achieve four objectives, viz. to review curricular and research materials from gender lens … surveyed and data of 80,838 students analyzed quantitatively. This apart, qualitative information obtained from 22 different …
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We study the causal effects and policy implications of global supply chain disruptions. We construct a new index of supply chain disruptions from the mandatory automatic identification system data of container ships, developing a novel spatial clustering algorithm that determines real-time...
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organizations, regions and national economies. This paper illustrates cybernetic communication’s theories based on information (with … types of information with relation to communication, knowledge and creation, semantic, statistical and mathematical aspects …
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consequences, we propose an alternate way of presenting stock market information. The alternative is easy to implement and can help …
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The assumption we submit, because macroeconomic forcasts would be unperfect, is that behavioral equations doesn't enough describe economic behaviours through the capacity of reaction opposite to environment. Further, the forcaster belongs to his search-system, so that, may be, we must now...
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Politicians seeking reelection need voters to know what they have done for them. Thus, incentives may arise to spend more money where media coverage is higher. We present a simple model to explain the allocation of public spending across jurisdictions contingent on media activity. An incumbent...
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Background: Economic theory strongly suggests that better information about the quality of care affects patients …’ choice of health service providers. However, we have little empirical evidence about the impact of information provided on … provider’s choice in Germany. Problem: In Germany, we recently find publicly available information about hospital quality. For …
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In this paper I want to describe one way of thinking about information. In effect, this paper relates to the notion … information theory, the goal is to generate information and make more accurate predictions about a particular condition. However …, the information itself can be fundamentally flawed. Another point is that information generated for this purpose has the …
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