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How Germans use their time
Scheffel, Juliane - 2011
Diese Dissertation besteht aus vier Aufsätzen, die zur empirischen Literatur der Allokation der Arbeitszeit beitragen. Der erste Artikel untersucht die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Arbeit und Sozialleben von Paaren und untersucht die Synchronisation der Arbeitszeiten. Ein neuer Analyseansatz wird...
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
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Female Entrepreneurs in Transitional Economies: a comparative study of Businesswomen in Nigeria and China
Kitching, Beverley; Woldie, Atsese - 2004
This paper focuses on the theme of women entrepreneurs, business and gender in two transitional economies, namely … Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and … difficult(OECD, 1998, 2001). Should China and Nigeria follow a similar pattern to other societies during the development process …
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Cross-cultural training of managers: An evaluation of a management development programme for Chinese managers
Branine, Mohamed - 2005
Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluation of how Chinese managers perceive and respond to … been collected from experience of a management development programme for Chinese managers in 20 state-owned enterprises …, and from interviews with 45 senior Chinese managers and officials who had been involved in a United Nations Development …
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Foreign Takeovers and Wages: Theory and Evidence from Hungary
Csengodi, Sandor; Jungnickel, Rolf; Urban, Dieter - 2005
This study discriminates FDI technology spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, our model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from moving to local...
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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis
Katchova, Ani L. - 2010
The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts depending on the availability of...
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The Adoption of Water Conservation and Intensification Technologies and Farm Income: A Propensity Score Analysis for Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana
Faltermeier, Liane; Abdulai, Awudu - 2008
This study uses cross-sectional data of 342 small-scale lowland rice farmers in Northern Region of Ghana to analyze the impact of the adoption decision of bund construction and seed dibbling on net returns, input demand and output supply. Matching was conducted based on Mahalanobis distance...
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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis
Katchova, Ani L. - 2008
The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of competition from other local contractors and spot markets. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443270
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International research collaboration, research team performance, and scientific and; technological capabilities in colombia -a bottom-up perspective
Ordonez-Matamoros, Gonzalo - 2008
This dissertation examines the ways international research collaboration affects the ability of Colombian research teams to produce bibliographic outputs, and to contribute to local knowledge. Research hypotheses are tested using Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models to account for...
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The Echo of Job Displacement
Eliason, Marcus; Storrie, Donald - 2003
This paper examines whether the loss of a job increases the likelihood of future difficulties on the labour market. We study displacement resulting from all plant closures (with ten or more employees) in Sweden in 1987 and follow their labor market outcome up to 1999. The control group is...
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