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Representation and Reward in High Technology Industries and Occupations: The Influence of Race and Ethnicity
Gatchair, Sonia Denise - 2007
This study examined whether the demand for more educated science and engineering workers outweighed longstanding practices of discrimination in hiring in high technology industries and science and engineering occupations. The study focused on the effects of education on the distribution of...
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Labour market returns to educational attainment, school quality, and numeracy in South Africa
Van Broekhuizen, Hendrik - 2011
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the extent to which educational attainment, school quality and numericcompetency influence individuals’ employment and earnings prospects in the South African labourmarket using data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). While NIDSis one...
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Technological Progress and Economic Transformation
Greenwood, Jeremy (1953; Seshadri, Ananth
These are lecture notes for the article "Technological Progress and Economic Transformation," in the Handbook of Economic Growth, 2005, v. 1B, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf. Amsterdam: Elsevier North-Holland, pp. 1225-1273.
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THE FACTORS AFFECTING LIFE EXPECTANCY IN SOUTH KOREA
LEE, Cheng-Wen; KIM, Min-Sun - 2017
The aim of the research is to examine the relationship between each of four factors affecting life expectancy and life expectancy and thereby provide primary data for government policy. First, the research chose four factors among many factors affecting life expectancy. The four factors chosen...
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The causal impact of removing children from abusive and neglectful homes
Bald, Anthony; Chyn, Eric; Hastings, Justine; …
Este documento analiza cómo impacta en el desempeño escolar la reubicación de niños en servicios de cuidado tutelar, tras investigaciones familiares por maltrato infantil. Para estimar el efecto causal de la reubicación, se construye una variable instrumental. Dicha variable es la...
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The causal impact of removing children from abusive and neglecful homes
Bald, Anthony; Chyn, Eric; Hastings, Justine; …
Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2126
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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand
Department of Petroleum Engineering
,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 … students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during 2006/7 saw a sudden and substantial growthin industry employment … students reduced to less than 10% of those taking the course. This loss in both student numbers and staff at the same time …
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Retention: rhetoric or realistic agendas for the future of higher education
Rowley, Jennifer - 2003
Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in International Journal of Educational Management, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
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Have they learnt to interrupt?: Comparing how women management students and senior women managers in Australia perceive workplace communication dilemmas
Barrett, Mary - 2009
-year female management students evaluated strategies for the same workplace dilemmas as senior women managers (Barrett 2004 …). Findings - For short and medium term dilemmas students, like senior women managers, regarded masculine communication strategies … evaluating the strategies' probability. But when seeking promotion, students avoided some strategies they considered effective …
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VILNIAUS KOLEGIJA/UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES FACEBOOK PROFILE ATTRACTIVENEES INVESTIGATION
Išoraitė, Margarita - 2019
The well-formed Facebook profile should be well-visible and understandable, not hidden under unnecessary information. Moreover, the most successful sites have an exquisite design - the design is eye-catching and distracting, the site is pleasure to browse, easy to use, and does not contain...
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