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Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation
Clark, Jennifer S. - 2024
strategies to examine the media industries." — Elana Levine, author of Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060941
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What matters to investment professionals in decision making? The role of soft factors in stock selection
Bäumer, Marcus - 2020
Much effort has been devoted by both academics and practitioners to understanding which factors drive share prices. Nevertheless, there are still sharp moves in stock markets that are difficult to explain. Obviously, factors that are hard or impossible to measure and subject to interpretation,...
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The Household Budget Survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew T. - 2018
We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the surveys themselves as source material, have traced the...
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Latin American Household Budget Surveys 1913-1970 and What They Tell Us about Economic Inequality among Households
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Lanata Briones, Cecilia; … - 2018
available at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/globalincomeinequality/. In Appendix 1 we offer a synopsis of the history, context and …
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The economic impact of climate change in the 20th century
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2011
The national version of FUND3.6 is used to infrapolate the impacts of climate change to the 20th century. Carbon dioxide fertilization of crops and reduced energy demand for heating are the main positive impacts. Climate change had a negative effect on water resources and, in most years, human...
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Attaining autonomy in the Empire: French governors between 1860 and 1960
Viallet-Thévenin, Scott; Chambru, Cédric - 2020
This article builds on the concept of linked ecologies to present a study of the occupational careers of French colonial governors between 1830 and 1960. We consider empires as the by-product of social entities structuring themselves. Specifically, we analyse the process of empowerment of this...
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Oltre i confini: Le imprese "leggere" italiane e I mercati internazionali nel XIX e XX secolo
Mellinato, Giulio (contributor); Prosperi, Laura (contributor) - 2021
The book investigates some aspects of the Italian economic development looking at some usually forgotten cases of international success: the small-medium enterprises specialized in 'light' productions, such as food, beverages, and apparel. These firms have shown a peculiar ability to adapt, in...
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Aristocratic amateurs to fat cats? British CEOs in the twentieth century
Adams, Robin J. C.; Aldous, Michael; Fliers, Philip; … - 2023
This article uses a prosopographical methodology and a new dataset of 1,558 CEOs from Britain's largest public companies between 1900 and 2009 to analyse how the role, social background, and career pathways of corporate leaders changed. We have four main findings: First, the designation of CEO...
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Inequality among European Working Households, 1890-1960
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew T.; … - 2018
In this article we map, for the first time, the time-path of the size distribution of income among working class households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household expenditure surveys. Many are not representative of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816627
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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2005
This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a … portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data … estimates the determinants of agricultural coping strategies in post-war Mozambique. Post-war coping strategies are expected to …
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