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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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Previsão da eficácia ofensiva do futebol profissional: Um caso Português
Caiado, Jorge; Vieira, Aníbal; Bonito, Ana; Reis, Carlos; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The forecast plays an important role in the planning, the decision-making and control in any domain of activity … (univariate models), that use only the information of its past values to forecast the future, can often predict future with more … accuracy than causal or multivariate models. In this paper, we model and forecast the offensive effectiveness of the soccer …
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Does employment protection lead to unemployment? A panel data analysis of OECD countries, 1990-2008
Sarkar, Prabirjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper analysed the OECD data on employment protection for 23 OECD countries over the time span 1990-2008 on the basis of alternative dynamic panel data models and panel causality tests and examines the validity of the neo-liberal argument that strictness of employment protection hurts...
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Impact of Labour Regulation on Unemployment: A Case Study of France, Germany, UK and USA
Sarkar, Prabirjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the state of labour protection in four countries (UK, USA, France and Germany) during 1970-2006. It supports the contention of the legal-origin theory that UK and USA (common law countries) intervene less in the labour market and grant less protection to labourers. It also...
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Indian Labour Regulation and Its Impact on Unemployment: A Leximetric Study, 1970-2006
Sarkar, Prabirjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper analyses a new leximetric dataset on Indian labour law over a long period 1970-2006. There are five broad aspects of labour law such as Alternative employment contracts, Regulation of working time, Regulation of dismissal, Employee representation and Industrial action. Indian labour...
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Sindicalismo: o fim do contra poder?
Sampaio, José João - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Departing from a stable industrial relationship, supported by logic of economic massification and the correspondent legal framework, it is our objective to approach the new industrial relations environment, emerging from the modifications on the enterprise organisation models, towards the new...
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Typical and atypical employment contracts: the case of Italy
Tealdi, Cristina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Atypical work refers to employment relationships, which do not conform to the standard model of full-time job of unlimited duration with a single employer. They differ from the typical contract in terms of legal regulations as well as requirements and benefits the worker is entitled to. This...
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Fac „babele” audienta in Romania? Determinanti culturali pentru succesul programelor de televiziune nefictionale
Radu, Raluca Nicoleta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Cultural studies research showed that the same cultural product is consumed differently, depending on the culture of reference a public is tied to. These studies were done on fictions, like the Dallas series. This paper will try to show if the cultural differences can explain the success or the...
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More fair play in an ultimatum game after resettlement in Zimbabwe: A field experiment and a structural model
Kohler, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Zimbabwean villagers of distinct background have resettled in government organized land reforms for more than three decades. Against this backdrop, I assess the level of social cohesion in some of the newly established communities by estimating average preferences for fairness in a structural...
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Compulsory tutorial programmes and performance in undergraduate microeconomics: A regression discontinuity design
Schöer, Volker; Shepherd, Debra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As South African universities experience extremely low graduation rates, academic staff implement a range of interventions, for instance tutorial programmes, in order to improve student performance. However, relatively little is known about the impact of such tutorial programmes on students’...
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