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Bildungspolitische Fragen haben in den letzten Jahren eine verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Auch der beruflichen und hier insbesondere der betrieblichen Weiterbildung wird vor dem Hintergrund des Paradigmas des „lebenslangen Lernens“ eine zunehmende Bedeutung eingeräumt. In der...
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full employment policy in Canada. A brief critique of existing spatial labor market methods is presented. The focus of this … employment policy in Canada: a Box-Jenkins approach', Economic Geography, 55(3), 213-226. … with Brechling-type models. It is argued, on the basis of the derived results, that a full employment policy would …
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Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies in the Coeur d'Alenes, to demand for a dollar increase in the daily wage of men employed. The companies usually act in concert on such matters but it is said today no conference...
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Open wage rate hearing Monday. - All sides to be heard at Coulee dam--referee Schedler arrives. - Assurance that the wage rate hearing at Grand Coulee dam will be expedited in order to establish promptly the wage scale which will apply under the new contract, was given by Carl R. Schedler,...
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Sidney miners take wage cut - Men employed by the Sidney mine have voluntarily accepted a 50-cent per day reduction in wages, it is reported at Wallace today, and it is possible this is only the first of the companies of the Coeur d'Alenes which will cut wages as a result of the reduction in the...
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The purpose of this paper was to examine the factors affecting the future firm size expectations of nascent entrepreneurs. This was done by testing a decision model on a unique data set composed of a random sample of nascent entrepreneurs. The proposed model is based on four different components...
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With an increasingly open economic condition in Thailand, insurance firms exposed to competition should improve efficiency to ensure their survival. This paper examines the cost efficiency and its relationship with profitability of life insurance firms: Cobb-Douglas stochastic cost frontier...
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This paper re-examines the evidence on how the listing of options impacts on underlying stock’s volatility by taking into consideration the possible presence of a learning effect, along with the impact of the very endogenous nature of the options listing decision itself. Our analyses are...
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This paper starts from the stylized fact that firm size and exporting tends to be positively related. Using large sets of establishment panel data for three different industries from official statistics evidence is presented that the familiar picture of an export/sales ratio that ceteris paribus...
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We examine how corporate governance indicators such as board size, board composition and CEO duality impact on financing decisions of firms. Panel data covering the five year period 1999-2003 from forty-seven (47) listed firms on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) was used. Analysis was done...
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