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Personnel Economics essay: Issues in Human Capital Theory, training and earnings of workers
Josheski, Dushko - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2014
the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation with earnings for which there exist and it is presented empirical …
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Personnel Economics essay: Issues in Human Capital Theory, training and earnings of workers
Josheski, Dushko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation with earnings for which there exist and it is presented empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260932
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Elaborate ornaments are costly to maintain: evidence for high maintenance handicaps
Walther, Bruno A.; Clayton, Dale H. - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 1, pp. 89-95
Elaborate secondary sexual traits, such as the ornamental plumage of birds, may be favored by female choice because they serve as honest indicators of male quality. Elaborate traits are thought to be honest signals because they are expensive to produce and increase predation risk. Here we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008581727
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Grooming among female Japanese macaques: distinguishing between reciprocation and interchange
Schino, Gabriele; Ventura, Raffaella; Troisi, Alfonso - In: Behavioral Ecology 14 (2003) 6, pp. 887-891
Grooming among female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) was studied to test some predictions derived from the … application of biological market theory. Contrary to expectations, Japanese macaques did not time match the duration of grooming … reciprocated and nonreciprocated grooming in different ways. However, they did reciprocate total amount of grooming received. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008581772
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Grooming in desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) and the ghost of parasites past
Mooring, Michael S.; Hart, Benjamin L.; Fitzpatrick, … - In: Behavioral Ecology 17 (2006) 3, pp. 364-371
Ectoparasites such as ticks have a negative effect on host fitness, whereas parasite-defense grooming is effective in … removing ticks. The central control (programmed grooming) model proposes that animals engage in preventive tick …-defense grooming in response to an internal timing mechanism, even in the absence of peripheral stimulation from parasites. This model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008581922
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Transcriptional Modulation of the Developing Immune System by Early Life Social Adversity
Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...
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Combination Calls in Olive Colobus Monkeys (Procolobus Verus) in Tai National Park, Cote D‘ivoire
BENE, Jean-Claude Koffi; OUATTARA, Karim; BITTY, Eloi … - In: Journal of Asian Scientific Research 2 (2012) 9, pp. 466-477
alerting conspecifics to a food source, etc. In some primates, call systems are structurally more complex because calls are …
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Evolutionary economics and household behavior
Horioka, Charles Yuji - In: Philippine Review of Economics 51 (2014) 2, pp. 67-82
This paper provides an introduction to the field of evolutionary economics with emphasis on the evolutionary theory of household behavior. It shows that the goal of evolutionary economics is to improve upon neoclassical economics by incorporating more realistic and empirically grounded...
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Decision Criteria in Ethical Dilemma Situations: Empirical Examples from Austrian Managers
Litschka, Michael; Suske, Michaela; Brandtweiner, Roman - In: Journal of Business Ethics 104 (2011) 4, pp. 473-484
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403248
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Moral Preferences, Moral Constraints, and Self-Serving Biases
Rabin, Matthew - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 1995
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