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Intellectual capital efficiency : evidence from Bangladesh

Rahman, Sheehan; Ahmend, Jashim Uddin - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 2, pp. 109-146

The study investigates associations, first, between a firm's intellectual capital and market value, and second, between a firm's intellectual capital and financial performance in the context of Bangladeshi companies selected from three different industries - banking, textiles, and...

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Determinantes de la temporalidad en el mercado laboral ecuatoriano

Chávez, Yannira; Medina, Paúl - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 13 (2012), pp. 24-53

The differences that exist inside the labor Ecuadorian market, in the different branches of activity, demonstrate the training levels that the workers must have to avoid negative effects. However, in this study, the role played by individual, jobs and residence characteristics are analyzed on...

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Preferences and skills of Indian public sector teachers 2u<

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-31

With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure … salary for moving to a remote location. The results suggest that existing caste and gender quotas can be detrimental for … hiring skilled teachers willing to work in remote locations. The most preferred location is home, which supports …

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Reforming an insider-outsider labor market : the Spanish experience

Benrolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-29

This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees, makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...

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Initial endowment effects in multi-unit vickrey auctions

Akaichi, Faical; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Gil, José M. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 4, pp. 41-55

We report the result of experiments designed to assess the effect of initial endowments on willingness to pay values elicited from multi-unit Vickrey auctions. Comparing bids from an “endow and upgrade” approach with the “full bidding” approach, we find that the direction of the...

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La teoría de juegos conductual, el dilema del viajero alternativo y la maximización de pagos

Moro, Rodrigo; Freidin, Esteban; Tohmé, Fernando; … - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 457-473

Within the area of Behavioral game theory, we focus on a specific context, namely, on a game we called the Alternative traveler’s dilemma. In this context, we observe that participants tend to choose strictly dominated strategies. In order to explain similar tendencies in other games,...

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Does the public sector discriminate against women? : occupational segregation prior to privatization in Egypt

Said, Mona - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 185-201

channels through which occupational segregation and pay discrimination affect the overall gender wage gap in different sectors … model estimates confirm that gender-based pay discrimination is small in the government sector in Egypt and quite high by … was quite prevalent in state owned enterprises, amounting to half of the discrimination component. These findings …

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An den Frauen vorbei : Frauenanteil in Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors stagniert

Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 3, pp. 14-22

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Spitzengremien großer Unternehmen : Hartnäckigkeit männlicher Strukturen lässt kaum Platz für Frauen

Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 3, pp. 3-12

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Finanzsektor : männliche Dominanz in Top-Entscheidungsgremien bleibt erdrückend

Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 3, pp. 16-24

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