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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353250
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Essays on the Economics of Happiness.
Gregoire Rousseau, Jean-Benoit - 2009
how men and women happiness differ. The secondary objective of the paper is to test whether gender specific factors can … happiness. Gender differences are identified and the results are consistent with the idea that labor force participation takes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476583
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Ausländische Direktinvestitionen als Wachstumsmotor? - Eine Empirische Analyse am Beispiel Lateinamerikas
Hinrichs, Cord - 2005
kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern … aufgeworfen, wie die Interaktion zwischen DI und inländischem Wirtschaftswachstum zu sehen ist. Auch wenn in der theoretischen als … auch empirischen Literatur signifikante Belege für eine Verbindung zwischen DI und Wirtschaftswachstum zu finden sind, so …
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Annual Hard Frosts and Economic Growth
Zuo, Xinjuan - 2005
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China's Creative Industries : Copyright, Social Network Markets and the Business of Culture in a Digital Age
Montgomery, Lucy - 2010
China’s Creative Industries explores the role of new technologies, globalization and higher levels of connectivity in re-defining relationships between ‘producers’ and ‘consumers’ in 21st century China. The evolution of new business models, the impact of state regulation, the rise of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438197
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Liquid lifestyles and business cycles: An evolutionary theory of fashion
Chai, Andreas; Earl, Peter E.; Potts, Jason - 2005
This paper revisits the welfare economics of fashion from the standpoint of evolutionary economics. Whilst accepting that fashion-focused consumption may have an element of status-seeking behaviour about it, which may be of questionable value in welfare terms, the paper emphasizes that fashion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447954
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The evolution of innovation systems
Dodgson, M.; Kastelle, T.; Potts, J. - 2009
There is an increasing appreciation for the role that facilitating institutions play in successful innovation. Most commonly these institutions are discussed and analysed as innovation systems. National Innovation Systems were the first type identified, and a range of other forms of innovation...
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From simplistic to complex systems in economics
Foster, John - 2005
The applicability of complex systems theory in economics is evaluated and compared with standard approaches to economic theorising based upon constrained optimisation. A complex system is defined in the economic context and differentiated from complex systems in physio-chemical and biological...
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Econometric modelling in the presence of evolutionary change
Foster, J.; Wild, P. - 1999
A methodology is offered which can be used to construct an econometric model in the presence of structural change of an evolutionary type. The theoretical basis for such modelling is drawn from the self-organisation approach and operationalised in the context of the logistic diffusion growth...
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