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Cazabobos o salvavidas? : la economía política de los fotorradares en Chile

Paredes, Ricardo D.; Rizzi, Luis I.; Valenzuela, Javier - In: Estudios de economía 33 (2006) 2, pp. 97-115

Most road accidents in Chile (causing about 1,600 deaths per year) are linked to speeding. A widely used control mechanism all over the world, the speed detectors, enabled in the middle of the 1990’s was then suddenly prohibited in Chile through the enactment of a law justified on the idea...

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Dynamic approach of capital structure of European shipping companies

Arvanitis, Stavros H.; Tzigkounaki, Irakleia S.; … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 3, pp. 33-63

of the European Maritime Enterprises (oceanic shipping). We focus on shipping companies, because of the large volume of … firstly the identification of factors that affect the capital structure of European oceanic shipping and secondly to search … of 32 listed European shipping companies for the period 2005-2010. The results suggest the prevalence of pecking order …

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Freight transport time savings and organizational performance : a systemic approach

Sambracos, Evangelos; Ramfou, Irene - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 19-40

This paper investigates the effect of freight transport time savings (FTTS) on the performance of transport consuming companies. In the first part existing methods on FTTS valuation are critically discussed and their limitations are identified. Following, a conceptual model is built introducing...

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Spice route : logistic journey of spices in retail supply chain perspective

Rajkumar, Paulrajan - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 3 (2012) 1, pp. 9-20

The aim of this paper is to report the findings of the study of the routes and the distance traveled by spices from the farming location to the consumer in traditional and organised retailing. This research study is primarily exploratory in nature, and the research instruments include interviews...

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Management skills of Pakistanis : a comparison of technical, human and conceptual differences

Mujtaba, Bahaudin G.; Javed, Muzhar; Nguyen, Lam D. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 129-139

This study focuses on the management skills of respondents from Sahiwal, Pakistan, to see if gender and education can be significant factors in their technical, human and conceptual competencies. The results of 470 Pakistani adults show that there are significant differences in their management...

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Notes on behavioral economics and labor market policy

Babcock, Linda; Congdon, William J.; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-14

Labor market policies succeed or fail at least in part depending on how well they reflect or account for behavioral responses. Insights from behavioral economics, which allow for realistic deviations from standard economic assumptions about behavior, have consequences for the design and...

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Activation and employment support policies in OECD countries : an overview of current approaches

Immervoll, Herwig; Scarpetta, Stefano - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

This note examines the balance of activation strategies in OECD countries, where this type of policy approach has a long tradition. Countries share the objective of strengthening employment and reducing benefit dependency and vulnerability among the working-age population, but the balance of...

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Are employability skills learned in US youth education and training programs?

Lerman, Robert I. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests of reading, writing and math abilities and by...

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Labour market and labour market policies during great recession the case of Estonia

Eamets, Raul - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-25

The purpose of the paper is to analyse how labour market and labour market institutions reacted during recent crises. In early 1990s Estonia introduced a set of rather unique policy options like currency board as a ground for monetary policy, low taxes, open foreign trade policy, low public...

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"Shelter from the storm?" - Danish flexicurity and the crisis

Madsen, Per - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

The Danish model won fame for its performance during the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000-years and took a position as a model for the European Employment Strategy and a much cited example of a real life flexicurity model. Like most other European countries Denmark has now fallen into a deep...

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