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Inter-sectoral Water Use in South Africa: Efficiency Versus Equity
Juana, James S.; Kirsten, Johann F.; Strzepek, Kenneth M. - 2006
the impact of reallocating water among the production sectors, on the basis of economic efficiency, on output growth … is reduced to 30%, while intra-sectoral water reallocation on the basis of efficiency is currently viewed as the most …
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Private Wage Returns to Schooling in Nigeria: 1996-1999
Aromolaran, Adebayo B. - 2002
efficiency, unless investments to increase school quality have higher private returns. With high private returns to postsecondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444165
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How Do Economists Really Think About the Environment?
Fullerton, Don; Stavins, Robert N. - 1998
On a topic like the environment, communication among scholars from different disciplines in the natural and social sciences is both important and difficult, but such communication has been far from perfect. Economists themselves may have contributed to some rather fundamental misunderstandings...
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Contracts versus Trust in Water Allocation: Growing & Sharing the Pie in Northeast Brazil
Pfaff, Alexander; Velez, Maria Alejandra - 2009
"We explore the efficiency and equity resulting from allocation of a fixed resource within a bargaining institution …-step trust (acceptance of less than the default) that pays off. Yet when that sharing message is a binding 'Contract', efficiency … and equity rise." …
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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?
Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis - 2008
The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by macro analysis. Median value-added per employee is nearly 40 times higher in South Korea than Ghana. The most important single factor in explaining this difference is the Mincerian...
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
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New Economy Growth Decomposition in the U.S.
Adelaja, Adesoji O.; Hailu, Yohannes G.; Abdulla, Majd - 2009
talent are potent in the New Economy; population dynamics, especially in the young and retiree segment of the population are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444742
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Pengaruh Iklan Sampo Pantene di Televisi Terhadap Preferensi Konsumen (Studi Kasus Mahasiswi AMIK MBP Medan)
Mungkur, Priscilya Anne Verena - 2011
the video, audio, and talent variables has a negative effect and insignificant. This can be seen in multiple linear …, talent, props, setting, and lighting to consumer preferences by 56,3%, meaning the relationship between variables is quite …, talent, props, setting, and lighting. The remaining 72,9% can be explained by other factors not examined in this study. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464397
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Welcoming remarks
Delgado Tejero, Margarita
visibility to issues related to gender diversity, are key to finding solutions to the waste of talent that involves not taking …
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Essays on High Frequency and Behavioral Finance
Rezania, Omid - 2011
The thesis consists of empirical studies on currency market as well as US equity market. A new volatility estimator …
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