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The aim of this paper is to understand the extent of e-business utilisation in the horticulture supply chain, an area where there is little research coverage. To achieve this, we assess the current and planned adoption of e-business technologies and functions. Data were collected through a...
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underlying the assimilation is the higher likelihood of recent immigrants in changing jobs among different sectors and firms, but …In this paper we use the Continuous Sample of Working Histories 2005 (MCVL2005) to analyze the earnings assimilation of … migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial …
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entrepreneurship as a subject of research becomes even more complex. The increase in numbers of immigrants in most advanced economies …. More precisely, the self-employment structure of immigrants to Germany changed tremendously since the 1970s. For instance …, in the early 1970s only 40,000 immigrants were registered performing self-employment activities, and their businesses …
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immigrants to the U.S. whose entry wages fall short of those of comparable natives because their human capital accumulated in … focused almost exclusively on male immigrants. Chapter Three extends the previous research to the population of female … immigrants by examining changes across cohorts in their labor market skills, as measured by their English proficiency …
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In recognizing the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation as the principal drivers of economic growth, this paper focuses on the human attributes that govern the behavior of the entrepreneur and the societal perceptions that influence the human environment in which the entrepreneur...
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confounding factors to explain differences in immigrants’ outcomes in the mortgage market. Using loan-level data from the Spanish …
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Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2203
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notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications were found with unemployment, overcrowding and number of shebeens per enumerator sub-district. High … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …
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given to the unemployment rate. While several of the most recent models of unemployment show that the aggregate unemployment … rate in Australia does indeed behave differently during periods of low and high unemployment, none can explain what drives … the unemployment rate to increase at such a rapid rate and what contributes to its much slower decrease. Another central …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth", describing the … these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no … permanent nominal rigidities, and no departure from rational expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff …
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