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Trade, testing and toasters: Conformity assessment procedures and the TBT Committee
McDaniels, Devin; Karttunen, Marianna - 2016
undergoing conformity assessment procedures (CAPs), such as testing, inspection, or certification. Duplication, delays or … regulations do, and that testing and certification are the procedures that most frequently give rise to trade problems. Within the …
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Mass Opinions: Globalization and Issues as Axes of Contention
Weßels, Bernhard; Strijbis, Oliver - In: The Struggle Over Borders. Cosmopolitanism and …, (pp. 65-88). 2019
This chapter aims to answer two general questions: Is there conflict on certain core issues relating to globalization … within societies; and does the context of globalization matter for the strength of this conflict? Results show quite strong … aggregate correlations between economic and cultural globalization and support for migration, between political and cultural …
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Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences in the 1980s and 1990s
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2010
In this paper we analyse the labor market and its relationship with globalization in two groups of countries similar in …. It is argued that the Latin American group adopted pro-globalization policies too quickly and without an adequate social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331394
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Globalization and Inequality in Latin America
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023
We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377266
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Why Are Middle-Aged People so Depressed? Evidence from West Germany
Brockmann, Hilke - 2009
Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et al. 1999; Argyle 2001). Others hold that the association is U-shaped with either highest depression rates (Mroczek and Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600876
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Institutional influences on strategic entrepreneurial behaviours
Autio, Erkko; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a multi-level model that connects the determinants of strategic resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271188
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How the economic and financial situation of the community affects sport clubs' resources: Evidence from multi-level models
Wicker, Pamela; Breuer, Christoph - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 3 (2015) 1, pp. 31-48
In many Western countries, local community sport clubs are important providers of leisure, sport, and social programs. These sport clubs are nonprofit organizations, which operate in an increasingly challenging environment. This study considers a club's direct local environment, i.e., the...
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Place of study, field of study and labour-market region: What matters for wage differences among higher-education graduates?
Kopecny, Silvia; Hillmert, Steffen - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21
This paper focuses on the structure and extent of wage differences among graduates of different higher-education institutions in Germany. We ask how large these differences are and how they relate to fields of study and regional labour markets. The results from our application of...
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The Relative Importance of Female Education on Fertility Desires in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multi-Level Analysis
Kebede, Endale Birhanu - 2019
Scholars suggest that in high fertility settings where there is high wanted fertility, lowering the desired family size is a necessary precondition for fertility declines. Though accumulated evidence has linked socio-economic developments to changes in fertility desires, little efforts have...
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The neglected role of formal and informal institutions in women’s entrepreneurship: a multi-level analysis
Gimenez-Jimenez, Daniela; Calabrò, Andrea; Urbano, David - In: Journal of International Entrepreneurship 18 (2020) 2, pp. 196-226
This article draws upon institutional theory to investigate whether and to what extent informal institutions (masculinity, power distance, individualism, and indulgence) affect the relationship between formal institutions (the public expenditure on childcare and the length of parental leave) and...
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