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The objective of this thesis is to investigate the potential contribution of transnational corporations (TNC) to the upgrading of systems of innovation in late-industrialising countries. This study looks specifically at TNC-affiliierter in Thailand’s manufacturing sector and compares them with...
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on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on … their housework, and has not considered the simpler possibility of an association between women’s absolute earnings and … housework. Consequently it has relied on unsupported theoretical restrictions in the modeling. We adopt a flexible …
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the first two empirical chapters, I examine the relationship between wives’ earnings and their time in housework, testing …’t Everything: Wives’ Earnings and Housework Time”, I use fixed-effects models and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and … find that wives reduce housework time as their earnings rise. However, the effect is highly non-linear, with high …
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States was the world's third largest PV market in terms of annual capacity additions in 2008, behind Spain and Germany; 335 …
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level of requirement of each measure.The model is tested with two different AES in Spain implying a low and a high farm …
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investigate the non-linear adjustments of prices along the lamb sector in Spain. The methodology used is based on the multivariate …
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plausible Doha outcome, we examine the long run costs for the European Union, in particular focusing on Spain. Moreover, we … Spain, the impacts of proposed Amber box reductions on fishing subsidies and the relatively smaller GDP contribution result …
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in Europe but the consumption is only of considerable importance in some countries. In Spain, the consumption of … in Spain. To do that a choice experimental approach has been used to assess consumers’ valuation of different diesel … options and calculate the willingness to pay for biodiesel. The data come from a recent survey conducted in Spain (Region of …
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Overall wine consumption in Spain is decreasing while, at the same time,Designation of Origin (DO) wine consumption is …
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The aim of this paper is to study excess capacity in National Health System (NHS) hospitals, which have the characteristics of a bureaucracy, within a theoretically consistent framework. In this sense, we develop and estimate an empirical model which has not previously been applied to this...
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