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Social Capital as Patterns of Connections. A Review of Bankston’s "Immigrant Networks and Social Capital"

Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Review of Immigrant Networks and Social Capital by Carl L. Bankston III. Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity.

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Chinese Graduate Students and U.S. Scientific Productivity

Gaulé, Patrick; Piacentini, Mario - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 698-701

The migration of young Chinese scientists to undertake graduate studies in U.S. universities is arguably one of the most important recent episodes of skilled migration. Using a new data set covering around 16,000 Ph.D. graduates in 161 U.S. chemistry departments, we show that Chinese students...

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The scientist and the church

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

publication has been repeatedly denied and censored by mainstream as well as progressive journals (including, it must be said, by …

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What is the Place of Christian Wolff in the History of the Social Sciences?

SENN, PETER - In: European Journal of Law and Economics 4 (1997) 2, pp. 147-232

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Elements of Effective Central Banking: Theory, Practice, and History

Goodfriend, Marvin - eSocialSciences - 2007

The key elements of effective central banking that account for much of the improvement in monetary policy around the world today are outlined and explained. The past quarter of the century has been a revolutionary period in which the world emerged from great inflation and output instability into...

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Incentive Pay in the United States: Its Determinants and Its Effects

Parent, Daniel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2001

The0501n objective of this article is to provide a survey of the empirical work done on the use of incentive pay in the United States focusing on two0501n empirical questions: what are the determinants of their use and what are the effects of pay-per-performance schemes, if any. Theoretical...

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How incentives affect web-based survey response rates of athletic program donors

Alvarado, Glenda; Callison, Coy - In: International Journal of Revenue Management 7 (2013) 2, pp. 155-170

survey response rates. Results indicated that the inclusion of incentives did not increase survey response rate nor did value … of incentive or incentive saliency. Respondents who were offered incentives, however, were quicker in providing the … requested information than those respondents not offered incentives for their participation. Discussion details how audiences …

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Europe In The Global Economy: Matching The U.S.?

Ude, Christian; Teltschik, Horst; Sinn, Hans-Werner - In: CESifo Forum 4 (2003) 2, pp. 3-7

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