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ESSAYS ON THE WESTERN LABOR MARKETS
Holter, Hans A - 2011
In Chapter 2, "Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence: The Impact of Taxation and Public Education Expenditure," I study the determinants of cross-country differences in intergenerational earnings persistence between fathers and sons. Western economies...
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Essays on economic mobility
Yalonetzky, Gaston Isaias; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2008
This thesis is a collection of three essays with contributions to the intergenerational and intra-generational mobility literature. The essay on full risk insurance and measurement error examines the likelihood that measurement error may reconcile observed departures from perfect rank immobility...
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Intergenerational mobility in earnings in Brazil spanning three generations and optimal investment in electricity generation in Texas
Ureta, Manuelita (contributor) - 2008
This dissertation contains three essays. The first and second essays examineintergenerational mobility in earnings in Brazil using a data set spanning three generations. I use data from PNAD{a nationally representative household survey inBrazil. I build a three-generations data set consisting of...
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International petroleum statistics report, June 1995
2009
The report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...
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International petroleum statistics report: April 1996
2010
This report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436896
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La Vita Imprenditoriale: Female and Male Entrepreneurs in Italy
Terjesen, Siri A.; Ratten, Vanessa - 2007
Female entrepreneurship is growing (OECD, 2000) with some estimates that this growth exceeds that of most economies around the world (Carter & Williams, 2005). In a forty-one country study, females comprise 36% of all entrepreneurs (Reynolds et al. 2004), with the percentage of female...
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Ownership structure and business evaluation practices in family SMEs : evidence from empirical research in Italy
Mussolino, Donata; Pugliese, Amedeo; Vigano, Riccardo - 2005
”. Evidence from many studies point out the importance of family business in a worldwide economic environment: in Italy 93% of the …
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Information technology capability within small-medium enterprises
Ravarini, Aurelio - 2010
organisations were involved in inter-organisational networks within industrial aggregations in Italy. Eleven SMEs were involved in a … multiple case study, and 77 SMEs (belonging to the textile and the mechanical industrial districts in Italy) were surveyed and …
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The EU demand for imports of virgin olive oil
Ben Kaabia, Monia; Gil, Jose Maria - 2007
This paper has analysed the import demand for virgin olive oil in the EU andmore precisely in the Italian market, as it concentrates more than 80% of EU imports,aiming to determine the relative position of Mediterranean EU and non-EU countriesexports and their degree of substitutability or...
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The challenge of the international organic certification: a new opportunity for agricultural trading?
Canavari, Maurizio; Cantore, Nicola - 2007
Italy by a cross country and panel analysis and second it provides an original specification for transaction costs. In … particular, we assume that the level of organic certification standards harmonisation between Italy and extra-European countries … that the absence of specific import harmonisation rules between Italy and other extra-European countries decreases the …
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