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Heroism is apparently nonadaptive in Darwinian terms, so why does it exist at all? Risk-taking and heroic behavior are predominantly male tendencies, and literature and legend reflect this. This study explores the possibility that heroism persists in many human cultures owing to a female...
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Technologien untersucht. Es wird ge-zeigt, dass es zu steigenden Erträgen der Adoption kommen kann, wenn verwandte Technologien … Entwick-lung führen. Dies bedeutet, dass die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Adoption einer Technologie mit der Anzahl der zu … Adoption neuer Technologien in Firmen strategische Bedeutung hat da sich daraus Möglichkeiten zur Durchführung von Innovationen …
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One’s personal claims regarding personhood will influence his moral belief regarding embryo adoption. In Chapter One, I … of embryo adoption as an ethical means to save human persons. However, for those who do not claim that an embryo is a … person at conception, embryo adoption is not a necessary practice because we have no moral obligation to protect them. There …
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In Chapter 2, "Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence: The Impact of Taxation and Public Education Expenditure," I study the determinants of cross-country differences in intergenerational earnings persistence between fathers and sons. Western economies...
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This thesis is a collection of three essays with contributions to the intergenerational and intra-generational mobility literature. The essay on full risk insurance and measurement error examines the likelihood that measurement error may reconcile observed departures from perfect rank immobility...
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This dissertation contains three essays. The first and second essays examineintergenerational mobility in earnings in Brazil using a data set spanning three generations. I use data from PNAD{a nationally representative household survey inBrazil. I build a three-generations data set consisting of...
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When economic times get tough, businesses worldwide are compelled to review their organizational expenses and priorities and to strategically consider how best to save. Traditionally, Information Technology (IT) department is one area that would be affected negatively in the review. To better...
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discussed widely by a number of researchers. However, there is a genuine lack of knowledge management adoption and practice … knowledge, perception of knowledge management and the factors of knowledge management adoption and practice in the context of …” concerning knowledge management on employees’ attitudes toward its adoption was found to be insignificant in this study. It was …
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While a number of factors have been highlighted in the innovation adoption literature, little is known about whether … different factors are related to innovation adoption in differently-sized firms. We used preliminary case studies of small … stakeholder pressure and non-financial readiness were related to innovation adoption in SMEs; but that for large firms, adoption …
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