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Using Your Ties to Get a Worse Job? The Differential Effects of Social Networks on Quality of Employment in Colombia
Deguilhem, Thibaud - 2018
This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
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Crecimiento Económico de Largo Plazo en Antioquia, Colombia : Estimación del PIB, 1800-1913 (Long Term Economic Growth in Antioquia, Colombia: GDP Estimates, 1800-1913)
Mejia, Javier - 2012
than the average of Colombia. Moreover, we found periods of economic boom between 1800 and 1840, 1860 and 1880, and 1905 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167721
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor: Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in La...
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616660
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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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Limited Information Aggregation and Externalities - A Simple Model of Metastable Market
Gong, Zheng; Tian, Feng; Xu, Boyan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We analyze a model in which agents’ decisions to enter or exit investments are influenced from their individual and external parties’ transaction histories. Actual investment outcomes are unknown to all participants until the end of decision periods, but outcomes do change depending on the...
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Poverty and Social Structure in Russia: An Analysis of the First Decade of Transition
Cerami, Alfio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3) to identify the most vulnerable groups of transition; and...
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The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa.
Bierschenk, Thomas; Elwert, Georg; Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991
This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development projects. The study reveals that superficial...
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Social structure bureaucracy and corruptionA
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Using the principal-agent- supervisor paradigm, this paper examines the occurrence of collusion in a setting where the principal has no information about the supervisor and the agent does not necessarily know the supervisor’s preferences. We formally prove the occurrence of collusion is more...
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The logic of violence in the civil war: the economics perspective
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling / Nozick / Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A...
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The developmental contribution of the Offset Agreements: the case of Colombia
LARRÚ, JOSÉ MARÍA - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Colombia is a middle-income country but with a human development constantly threatened by insecurity. This paper … EADS-CASA in Colombia. Compare Malaysia, the Colombian case exemplifies how offset might be an instrument of development …, these agreements can be a good example. The offset agreements executed in Colombia are assessed with high marks in relevance …
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