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Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...
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Starting in 1999, the Bologna Process reformed the German five-year study system for a first degree into the three-year bachelor's (BA) system to harmonize study lengths in Europe and improve competitiveness. This reform unintentionally challenged the German apprenticeship system that offers...
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If individuals join a trade union their utility should increase. Therefore, union members can be expected to exhibit higher job satisfaction than comparable non-members. This expectation is not consistent with empirical findings. The evidence sometimes indicates that union members have lower job...
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-2013, Finland 1990-2007,and Norway1991-2005,rising capital shares of income contributed to changes in personal income inequality …
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key features of the model for the Nordic economies (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden), by synthesizing relevant … resource revenues on the labor market and income inequality in Norway compared to the other Nordic countries; the design of a …
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relative productivity. Fertility increased. This caused lower female participation in agriculture and subsistence activities …
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Smallholder farming dominates agriculture in poorer countries. Yet, traditional recall-based surveys on smallholder …
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depended directly on agriculture due to their extreme vulnerability to temperature and rainfall shocks. We find large …. Based on it, we designed the agriculture-household model, which predicts that health outcomes of child is dependent on …
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agriculture, and migratory distance across 1° x 1° grid cells in eastern Asia, we find that cells that adopted agriculture earlier … continue to be a part of China today. By contrast, cells that adopted agriculture early and were located further from Erlitou … developed into independent states, as agriculture provided the fertile ground for state-formation, while isolation provided time …
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on international migration contingent on agriculture exists. Third, non-environmental factors such as economic …
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