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The analysis of policies to promote economic growth and alleviate poverty [FAST version]
Wilson, Edgar James - 2009
A collection of eighteen articles have been purposely chosen to demonstrate the development of the original and significant contributions of my research over the period 1990 to 2008. Despite the relatively large number of articles, which cover a range of related issues, there is a surprisingly...
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Zur Wirksamkeit der "Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung" (FbW)
Jansen, Marcus - 2005
Evaluationsansätze auf Basis von Matchingverfahren werden heute weitgehend als superiores Instrument zur Bewertung der Wirksamkeit der Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung angesehen. Die vorliegende Arbeit gibt zu bedenken, dass solche Verfahren ungenaue Schätzergebnissen generieren, wenn eine...
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Four Essays on University Economics
Hein, Miriam - 2008
of university economics. The focus of the first two articles is on the evaluation of research output and research …
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M?glichkeiten und Grenzen der ?konomischen Bewertung von personalstrategischen Ma?nahmen. Der Versuch einer Evaluation am Beispiel eines Zielmanagementsystems mit variabler Gehalts...
Br?ck, Eveline - 2005
personalwirtschaftlichen Ma?nahmen diskutiert.Im zweiten Teil wird anhand eines personalpolitischen Instruments aus der Praxis eine Evaluation … integrated management approaches. Finally the measurement of specific HR practices by a range of evaluation models are discussed …. In the second part, an own evaluation approach is presented and realized proving the practicability of the economic …
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Lessons Learned From Germany’s 2001-2006 Labor Market Reforms
Schumm, Irene - 2009
In der Dissertation werden die Gesetze zur Reform des Arbeitsmarktes in Deutschland, besser bekannt als Hartz-Reformen, untersucht. Zunächst wird ein Überblick über die wichtigsten Änderungen aus den vier Reform-Paketen gegeben sowie die Effekte, welche man sich davon versprach. Des Weiteren...
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THE IMPACT OF HOUSEHOLD-LEVEL DETERMINANTS OF CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION: CROSS-COUNTRY EVIDENCE FROM WEST AFRICA
Penders, Christopher L.; Staatz, John - 2001
Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic … variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different …
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Modelling physical quantities of food and nutrients consumed from aggregate data – with an application to Finland
Irz, Xavier T. - 2009
Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because physical quantities are: 1- not consistent aggregates in...
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Do Income Constraints Inhibit Spending on Fruits and Vegetables Among Low-Income Households?
Stewart, Hayden; Blisard, Noel; Jolliffe, Dean - 2003
This study assesses whether income constraints inhibit spending on fruits and vegetables among low-income households. If this is the case, then it is hypothesized that the distribution of expenditures on fruits and vegetables by low-income households should be stochastically dominated by the...
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The Influence of Health on Labor Productivity: An Analysis of European Conscription Data
Knapp, David - 2007
Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This … paper builds on that literature by considering the influence that net nutrition has on a population’s labor productivity … nutrition in people’s first 20 years has had a significant and positive effect on labor productivity over the twentieth century …
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Underlying Contextual Effects Leading to over Consumption: Extremeness Aversion and Bundling
Sharpe, Kathryn Michelle - 2008
Obesity is now a global problem. Within the U.S., the rise in obesity has been largely driven by the increase in caloric consumption. By specifically observing the practices in the fast food industry, this dissertation examines two factors, portion sizes and bundling, to answer the question,...
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