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Jobs for Iraq: an employment and decent work strategy
Amjad (edited by), Rashid; Havers (edited by), Julian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This book focuses on the critical role of employment and creation of decent work in facilitating peace in Iraq. It argues that reducing the high degree of unemployment could contribute to peace and stability in the lives of people, communities and the country. Iraq’s difficult transition...
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Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Systems Approach Research in HRD
Yawson, Robert M.; Greiman, Bradley - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The world is experiencing significant, largely economic and sociotechnical, induced change. These induced changes are meaningful with a function of people taking collective actions around common beliefs. These changes are more than jargon, cliché and hyperbole, and they are effecting major...
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Employment strategies and labor market policies: interlinkages with macro and sectoral policies
Amjad, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper examines the critical linkages between macro, sectoral and labour market policies and employment in the context of Pakistan's Medium-Term Development Framework (MTDF) 2005-10 and the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP-1).
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Study on workload of public health nurses and other women health workers in India
Kannan, Srinivasan; Sarma, P. Sankara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Introduction. The study gathered information on work load among women public health workers and factors associated with this in Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Malappuram and Wayanad districts of Kerala. An increasing number of nurses were reported to have occupational hazards and are...
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The superstar quest: Does youth talent predict professional success for female and male tennis players?
Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We estimate the relationship between international youth and professional tennis rankings. We find no difference between the predictiveness of rankings from age 14 & Under versus age 16 & Under competitions. The most persistent predictor of professional success is beating older top ranked...
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Impact of demographic factors on employee engagement:a study with reference to vasan publications private limited,chennai
Swaminathan, J.; Ananth, A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Employee plays a vital role in each and every organization; the interest of employee will help to achieve the organization’s objectives. Successful employee engagement strategy creates a community at a work place and not just a work force. When the employees are effectively and positively...
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Learning to bid, but not to quit – Experience and Internet auctions
Bramsen, Jens-Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A classic argument in economics is that experience in the market place will eliminate mistakes and cognitive biases …. Internet auctions are a popular market were some bidders gather extensive experience. In a unique data set from a Scandinavian …. However, the so-called pseudo-endowment effect does not disappear. Regardless of their experience, bidders will be inclined to …
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Learning to Fail? Evidence from Frequent IPO Investors
Chiang, Yao-Min; Hirshleifer, David; Qian, Yiming; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We examine the effects of bidding experience on two groups of investors – individuals and institutions – in terms of … experience; and (4) greater experience is associated with more aggressive bid prices. These findings are consistent with naïve …
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Duration of loan arrangement and syndicate organization
Godlewski, Christophe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
What is the influence of syndicate organization on the duration of loan arrangement? I answer this question using the survival analysis methodology on a sample of loans from 59 countries over the 1992-2006 period. I find that syndicate size, concentration, reputation, and national diversity...
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Experience and Worker Flows
Gorry, Aspen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
novel predictions of a decline in job finding rates with age and a decline in the variance of wages with experience that are …
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