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have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India …’s North Eastern Region. Women in agriculture in this part of the country, are going to get more and more employments both in … bring in miseries to the women folks. However, in the long run, women in this region are going to gain the lion’s share of …
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‘threatening’ planning for Women in Development (WID) to the more ‘confrontational’ gender planning with its aspiring goal of …The concept of women’s development has now become an integral part of the development discourses and policy initiatives …. This development has been informed by a remarkable though gradual shift in the perception about women, from the stature of …
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ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around … barriers are linked negatively to the start-up decision, stronger perceptions of financial barriers among women are having a …
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Although at the beginning of the 21st century, over 95 percent of all countries in the world have granted women the … right to vote and the right to stand for election (Ballington & Karam, 2005), gender equality in terms of representation in … representation of women at the level of the smallest unit of Philippine government—the village or barangay. Data comparison—within a …
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Recent research in labor economics has highlighted the substantial and long-lasting adverse effect of recessions on employment prospects and earnings. In this paper, we study whether individuals react to these shocks by changing career paths and thereby affect the selection of talent into...
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We study the selection of skills into sectors in an environment with (1) exogenous variation in the attractiveness of sectors and (2) good measurability of skills. More concretely, we examine how the selection into leading economics PhD programs varies with the business cycle and we measure...
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content distribution before moving on to underline the need for the film and audiovisual industries to socially construct new … cultural and commercial experiences with film fans. …
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Media companies from all over the world are undergoing a digitalization process, forced by the rapid distribution of … in media companies that were reluctant to the introduction of new technologies. Analyzing this process often proves to be … introduction of new technologies in media companies in Romania, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus, using an institutional approach. We …
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Citizens of Southern Europe have been presented by the German media and politicians as lazy and work aversive. First …
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This paper will develop the half variance approach,identifying the expected utility functions that can be expressed in terms of the expected value and standard deviation. We study the stochastic dominance to determine the conditions required by the ordering of lotteries when they are probability...
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