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The intersection of sport management and sociology of sport research: A social network perspective
Love, Adam; Andrew, Damon P.S. - In: Sport Management Review 15 (2012) 2, pp. 244-256
Numerous scholars have highlighted important connections between the sport management and sociology of sport disciplines. Heeding calls from scholars in both fields to utilize social network analysis as a lens of inquiry, the purpose of the current study was to empirically explore the...
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Femininity, Childhood and the Non-Making of a Sporting Celebrity: The Beth Tweddle Case
Cohen, Rachel Lara - In: Sociological Research Online 18 (2013) 3, pp. 19-19
Gymnastics is regularly classified as a feminine-appropriate sport, embodying grace and elegance. Furthermore, it is the Olympic sport which has regularly produced female sporting celebrities. Beth Tweddle is the most successful British gymnast of all time and the first to achieve international...
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Forschungsbericht / Universität Linz. Universität Graz : Forschungsschwerpunkt S 44 Dynamik der Arbeitslosigkeit und Beschäftigung
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz; … - Linz [u.a.] - 1.1985 - 36.1991[?]
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Piaţa muncii în Republica Moldova: evaluarea problemelor şi măsurilor necesare
Guslicova, N.; Akimova, Z.; Dmitrieva, O.; Leca, O.; … - 2003
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The US healthcare workforce and the labor market effect on healthcare spending and health outcomes
Pellegrini, Lawrence; Rodriguez-Monguio, Rosa; Qian, Jing - In: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 14 (2014) 2, pp. 127-141
participation rate shows a more robust effect on healthcare spending, morbidity, and mortality than the unemployment rate. Study … opposed to unemployment, is a better proxy for measuring the effect of the economic environment on healthcare spending and …
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
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Maternal and Child Survival: Findings from five countries experience in addressing maternal and child health challenges
Cortez, Rafael; Saadat, Seemeen; Chowdhury, Sadia; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Considerable progress has been made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since 1990. Although advances in improving MDG 4 and MDG 5a (reducing child and maternal mortality, respectively) have been made, progress is some countries have been insufficient. While some...
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Are the Long-Term Unemployed on the Margins of the Labor Market?
Krueger, Alan B.; Cramer, Judd; Cho, David - In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 48 (2014) 1 (Spring), pp. 229-299
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Human Capital Dynamics and the U.S. Labor Market
Fang, Lei; Nie, Jun - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2014
The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …
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