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Internationale Konjunkturverbunde/International Business Cycles
Graff, Michael - 2006
interpreted as the world business cycle. The further components suggest the existence of a Scandinavian-Anglo-Saxon business cycle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448749
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Situation of family owned enterprises in Austria with focus on finance and succession
Leyherr, Max - 2000
The dissertation focusses on structural aspects of family firms in Austria. Basis of the underlying data is an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467511
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Peer effects in sexual initiation: Separating social norms and partner supply
Richards, Seth O - 2010
Sexual activity among adolescents is associated with risks such as pregnancy and STDs, and there is substantial policy interest in how peers influence the timing of sexual initiation. This paper measures separate effects for two social mechanisms--peer-group norms and partner availability--using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438555
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Demographic processes in China and Vietnam: Three essays
Merli, M Giovanna - 1996
This dissertation includes three separate papers that share an emphasis on the significance of socio-political and historical factors on the quality of demographic data in China and Vietnam. The first two papers investigate the interaction between data collection and family planning policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439081
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The integrative functions of post-industrial U.S. labor market for marriage formation: Three essays
Yang, Lijun - 2010
The deteriorating labor market position of young men has arguably played an important role in later and less frequent marriage since the 1970s. This dissertation examines the relationship between men's socioeconomic characteristics and marriage formation and the labor market causes of marriage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439188
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Institutional ideology and industry-level action: A macro analysis of corporate legitimation in the United States petroleum industry
Prasad, Anshuman - 1994
This dissertation is a multi-method, institutional theoretic study that sought to understand how organizational communication in the United States petroleum industry functioned as a device for corporate legitimation over the years 1975-1990. The study investigated the symbolic dimension of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467813
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From rice fields to red light districts: an economic examination of factors motivating employment in Thailand’s sex industry
Wittman, Cori - 2011
Master of Agribusiness
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464110
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The Flat Tax: An Examination of the Baltic States
Greenberg, Deena - 2009
strategy across Europe and the rest of the world. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania adopted flat tax systems in 1994 and 1995 … growth, shocking the world as they emerged as “Baltic Tigers” at the turn of the century. Russia adopted a flat tax regime in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438702
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A TALE OF TWO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS: TUNISIA AND MOROCCO
Friedman, Steven J - 2010
planning and implementation. The World Bank heralds both countries as prime examples of how market-friendly capitalist systems … Tunisia one of 5.1%. To put that in perspective, the World as-a-whole has grown at 2.0% per year and the United States at 1 … underlying causes of this consistently well above average growth in answering several key questions: What policies did the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439124
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Automatic model selection: a new instrument for social science
Hendry, David F.; Krolzig, Hans-Martin - 2004
The properties of automatic model selection are discussed, focusing on PcGets. We explain the background concepts and why automatic methods can perform well. Criticisms of model selection procedures are noted and rebutted. The algorithm is sketched, distinguishing between costs of search and...
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