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Great expectations. The unintended consequences of educational choices
FERRANTE, FRANCESCO - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
.e. income, happiness, job and life satisfaction, health status. Nevertheless, to date few systematic efforts have been made to … satisfaction and health status. The tentative explanations of my empirical findings are: (a) people experience large mismatches in … aspirations/expectations early in adult life; (d) the latter mismatches depend on education and are largely confined to the labour …
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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy
Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
nature of entrepreneurial talent and the specific role of education in entrepreneurial selection and performance. Empirical … studies on entrepreneurship do not offer a neat picture of the actual contribution of education to entrepreneurial human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836859
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Institutions éducation et travail des enfants
Jellal, Mohamed; Tarbalouti, Essaid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
countries. Our model shows the importance of the role of institutions in explaining the level of education of these countries … education. Our main result showed the existence of a strategic complementarity between the formal institution and informal …
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A Happiness Test of Human Capital Theory
Piper, Alan T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
working conditions. Hence, the investigation here is to ascertain whether there is a happiness premium to education over and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258224
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Social capital and views on suicide via the internet: a study using survey data
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Based on data from surveys conducted in Japan, this paper attempts to examine the effect of social capital on individuals’ views about suicide as conveyed via the Internet. Furthermore, this paper compared the effects of social capital accumulated in respondents’ residential areas at 15...
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Identity, Nostalgia and Happiness among Migrants: The Case of the Kōshien High School Baseball Tournament in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
High school baseball is very popular in Japan. All games of the high school baseball tournaments are publicly broadcasted. This paper hypothesizes that high school baseball influences the happiness level of the Japanese. Individual level data in Japan was used to test this hypothesis. The key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260877
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Magison-ison: A parallel reality construction of war among Joloano Muslim Survivors in Sulu, Philippines
Usman-Laput, Lea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The Mindanao conflict in Southern Philippines is a long-standing controversy that has eluded comprehensive solutions. Despite efforts of the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the representatives from the peoples of Mindanao in undertaking peace initiatives, “the war:” continues. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401312
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Etica, economia e principi di giustizia
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The theme of justice in the economics and, in particular, the theme of distributive justice is the subject of heated controversy as distributive justice raises critical questions such as, for example, in the case of migration or the inequality of wages. But the question of justice is also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421989
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Keeping in Touch – A Benefit of Public Holidays
Merz, Joachim; Osberg, Lars - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787152
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An action plan to assess the current situation of maternal & newborn care at government health facilities in Jharkhand, India
Kumar, Sudesh; Singh, Janet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Maternal and child health care especially safe motherhood services are an important factor in the primary health care and are the responsibility of the government and ministry of health. Consolidating and strengthening health network and quality of primary health care is one of the priority...
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