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women in developing countries. Despite compelling evidence that cervical cancer screening has reduced morbidity and … price of screening reduced take-up of the program by between 7 and 8 percentage points while women selected to receive the …
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This paper focuses on the role of R&D efforts – both domestic and foreign – and human capital investments to the development of national productivity. As technology is also embodied in human capital, the paper empirically investigates the significance of labour mobility as an effective...
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In this paper we develop a neoclassical growth model that aggregates different types of labor skills from strict complementarity to perfect substitution. After having derived general balanced growth conditions and developed explicit growth paths for capital and aggregate labor force, the model...
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Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde. This is allegedly the African country suffering from the largest "brain drain",...
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PurposeRetailing as a sector employs many women and serves a female dominated customer base. It also employs … proportionately more women in management positions than in other occupational sectors. However, at senior levels, the proportion of … women to men diminishes. This article examines the perceived facilitators and problems of senior retail managers’ career …
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management and women’s careers. It reveals the factors that continue to be problematic for women’s careers and why in 2010 they … women’s continued under-representation in retail management positions is gained. The overall findings from the papers … indicated that the main reasons for women’s and men’s differential experience in the retail management hierarchy can be located …
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It is a well documented fact that there are few women in top executive positions in business organizations. In this … research I examine the effect of having women in top executive positions on an organization’s human qualities (such as being … compelling evidence on the impact of women in top executive positions on an organization’s softer, human qualities, and on the …
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methodologies from the history of technology, institutional history, and labor history, as well as gender analysis, this … public sector and the nation. Beginning with a labor situation in which women did the majority of computing work, and …
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Research shows that larger, more profitable and more visible companies are less likely to disclose internal control weaknesses. Firms with similar characteristics tend to hire more female board members. This paper examines whether there is an association between companies that have a higher...
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