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Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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Sources of ethnicity differences in non-cognitive development in children and adolescents
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, Luke; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2019
In most multi-cultural Anglo-Saxon countries, children of Asian immigrants have higher academic achievement than children of native-born parents. Yet, little is known about their relative non-cognitive performance. This study is the first to compare the non-cognitive skills of children of Asian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116205
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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169071
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Residential responses to cyclones: New evidence from Australia
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis - 2024
nationally representative longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, coupled with … relocation intentions and actual migration experiences show moderate increases, particularly in cases of higher cyclone severity … and actively seek coverage. Alongside long-distance domestic migration, insurance acquisition emerges as another …
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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161723
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Explaining the evolution of ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, B. Luke; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2019
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143415
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Forecasting product returns for remanufacturing systems
Liang, Xavier; Jin, Xiaoning; Ni, Jun - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 4 (2014) 8, pp. 1-18
One of the major challenges that a remanufacturer faces at strategic planning level today is to match its supply (returned items) with demand due to the inherited uncertainties and variations on both sides. Forecasting product returns is one of the most important tasks of this matching process....
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German tariffs for the ICECAP-Supportive Care Measure (ICECAP-SCM) for use in economic evaluations at the end of life
Dams, Judith; Huynh, Elisabeth; Riedel-Heller, Steffi; … - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 22 (2021) 3, pp. 365-380
Objectives Economic evaluations often use preference-based value sets (tariffs) for health-related quality of life to quantify health effects. For wellbeing at the end of life, issues beyond health-related quality of life may be important. Therefore, the ICECAP Supportive Care Measure...
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Servant leadership relationship with leader-member exchange: The moderating role of motivation-to-serve and motivation-to-lead
Amah, Okechukwu Ethelbert - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 4 (2015) 3, pp. 108-127
Using 200 paired responses from managers/supervisors, and their subordinates working in three big organizations in Nigeria, this study validated the factor structure for servant leadership and combined the motivational and behavioral approaches in the servant leadership model to enhance the...
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Call for collaboration in researching the best practices in teaching ethical entrepreneurship: the conflict of money and ethics
Solymossy, Emeric - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 5 (2015) 20, pp. 1-16
Entrepreneurs seek opportunity, are organizational innovators, and engines of economic development. Pursuit of economic self-interest may manifest "guile," or deceit. As academics, we are charged by businesses (and society) to instruct students in functional topics as well as in the rules and...
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