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Death, sex and fertility: Female infanticide in rural Spain, 1750-1950
Tapia, Francisco J. Beltrán; Marco-Gracia, Francisco J. - 2020
Relying on longitudinal micro data from a Spanish rural region between 1750 and 1950, this article evidences that families mortally neglected a significant fraction of their female babies. On the one hand, baptism records exhibit exceptionally high sex ratios at birth, especially during the 19th...
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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Wagner, Joachim; Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander - 2011
comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …
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Das agrarsoziale Sicherungssystem in Frankreich: Zentrale Merkmale und Entwicklungen aus der Perspektive der landwirtschaftlichen Sozialversicherung in Deutschland
Mehl, Peter - 2011
Eine vergleichende Analyse der agrarsozialen Sicherungssysteme in Deutschland und Frankreich, die auch eine vergleichende Bewertung der Systeme aus der Perspektive der versicherten Landwirte enthält, ist trotz einiger Parallelen zwischen landwirtschaftlicher Sozialversicherung (LSV) und...
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Do determinants of FDI to developing countries differ among OECD investors? Insights from Bayesian model averaging
Antonakakis, Nikolaos; Tondl, Gabriele - 2012
, Germany, France and the Netherlands to developing countries located in different world regions. Our goal is to elucidate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307916
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The French Productivity Puzzle
Askenazy, Philippe; Erhel, Christine - 2015
Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are …
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The future of nuclear power in France: An analysis of the costs of phasing-out
Malischek, Raimund; Trüby, Johannes - 2014
Nuclear power is an important pillar in electricity generation in France. However, France's nuclear power plant fleet … in France under different scenarios? Second, who has to bear these costs, i.e., how much of the costs will be passed on … France have on system costs? Applying a stochastic optimization model for the European electricity system, we show that …
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Financial Flows in the Recycling of Packaging Waste: The Case of France
Simões, Pedro; Cruz, Nuno; Marques, Rui Cunha - 2012
The recycling of packaging waste is an objective of the Community with very ambitious recycling rate targets laid down in the European law. Research on the operations and on the financial and economic costs that resulted from this environmental policy is an ongoing effort. Currently, there is...
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Systems of Packaging Waste Recycling in the EU: Comparing Five Different Case-Studies
Simões, Pedro; Cruz, Nuno; Marques, Rui - 2012
household packaging waste for five EU countries, namely: France, Germany, Portugal, Romania and the UK. We compare institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340934
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Do determinants of FDI to developing countries differ among OECD investors? Insights from Bayesian Model Averaging
Antonakakis, Nikolaos; Tondl, Gabriele - 2011
, Germany, France and the Netherlands to developing countries located in different world regions. Our goal is to elucidate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345484
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Grundpreisaufschläge bei Groß- und Familienpackungen - eine empirische Untersuchung im deutschen und französischen Lebensmitteleinzelhandel -
Benner, Eckhard; Heidecke, Sandra-Jasmin - 2005
Verbraucher und Verbraucherinnen gehen in der Regel davon aus, dass sie beim Kauf von Groß- bzw. Familienpackungen einen Mengenrabatt bezogen auf den Grundpreis (Preis pro Mengeneinheit) erhalten. Diese Regel trifft auch bei der Mehrzahl der am Markt angebotenen Waren zu. Allerdings zeigten...
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