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Mikro-Chips für Massenmärkte - Innovationsstrategien der europäischen und amerikanischen Halbleiterhersteller in den 90er Jahren
Buss, Klaus-Peter; Wittke, Volker - 2000
Der Beitrag stellt Ergebnisse des SOFI-Projektes "Organisation von Innovationsprozessen in der Halbleiterindustrie" vor, das im Rahmen des"Verbundes Sozialwissenschaftliche Technikforschung" vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung gefördert wurde. Das Projekt hat die Veränderung von...
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Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidencefrom Four Regions in China
Chen, Zhuo; Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
the same structure across regions and to berelated to the age of the farmer, land fragmentation, and the village migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360855
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ARBEITSMIGRATION NACH JAPAN: RECHTLICHERAHMENBEDINGUNGEN, POLITISCHER DISKURS
Behaghel, Jeannette; Vogt, Gabriele - Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien <Tōkyō> - 2006
world regions. For Japan to keep up its workforce, this studyfinds a replacement migration of up to ten million people per …In 2000 the United Nations published a study named „Replacement Migration– Is it a Solution to Declining and Ageing … Populations?“ which highlightsthe effects replacement migration may have on the workforce of eight industrialcountries and two …
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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimilano; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia’s immigration policy, introduced inthe mid-1990s, on migrants’ probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy changeconsists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The resultsindicate that those who...
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Ageing and migration trends: preparing for change in the EU´s labour market
Rossi, Vanessa; Burghart, Nora - Chartered Insurance Institute - 2009
Vass of Age Concern. However what about the impact of rising migration that also seems likely for Europe in the coming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870116
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POLISH IMMIGRANTS INLEICESTER:Forms of Capital UnderpinningEntrepreneurial Activity
Vershinina, Natalia; Barrett, Rowena; Meyer, Michael - Leicester Business School - 2009
In this paper we report a study of 10 Polish immigrant entrepreneurs operating inLeicester, UK. Like Ram, Theodorakopoulos and Jones (2008) we take a forms-ofcapitalapproach but use Bourdieu’s (1983) social, cultural and economic capitals asthe lens through which to explore their pathways to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870409
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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London
Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
explanatory variable in the analysis of migration. Although correlated with other variables that are routinely used in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870559
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The Roofs of Wren and Jones: A Seventeenth-Century Migration of Technical Knowledge from Italy to England
Valeriani, Simona - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
Seventeenth-century English architecture saw the introduction of a new style, influenced by continental Europe, and driven, to a large extent, by the work of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren. But along with the aesthetic novelty came novel building techniques; construction methods embedded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870927
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Are Human Rights and Economic Well-Being Substitutes? Evidence from Migration Patterns across the Indian States
Libman, Aleksandr M.; Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten; Yadav, … - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2011
samples westudy the intra-national migration in a federation with significant economic and political differencesbetween states … patterns of migration: lower numberof human rights violations acts as a “pull” factor for individual states only if the …
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Firm Migration and Stock Returns
Puopolo, Giovanni W. - Finrisk - 2009
This paper studies the asset pricing implications of a general equi-librium model in which real investment is reversible at a cost. Firmsface higher costs in contracting than in expanding their capital stockand decide to invest when their productive capital is scarce relativeto the overall...
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