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Ask us equally if we want to go: Evolving gender implications in international assignments among Finnish business graduates
Gripenberg, Pernilla; Niemistö, Charlotta; Alapeteri, Carla - In: Journal of Global Mobility 1 (2013) November, pp. 287-287
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore gender differences in career prospects and changes in attitudes to international assignments over recent decades in Finland. This is relevant in light of the international immobility trend among staff with which MNCs especially are struggling,...
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Social Welfare Systems in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis including Private Welfare
Jacobs, Didier - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 1998
This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong … privately financed welfare programmes; (ii) Korea and Taiwan's public welfare expenditures will grow significantly in the coming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201165
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Explaining Bank Efficiency Differences Between China and Taiwan by Meta-Frontier Cost Function
Liu, Yi-Cheng; Yang, Wen; Mai, Shin-Ying; Mai, Chao-Cheng - In: Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies … 15 (2012) 04, pp. 1250024-1
and Taiwan over the period 2003–2009. Different from previous literature using loans and securities as the output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598108
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The Impact of Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreaks in Taiwan and South Korea on the Red Meat Industries in Canada and the United States
Charlebois, Pierre; Gagne, Stephan - Agriculture Canada, Government of Canada - 2008
Canada since the end of the 1980s. In particular, the outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Taiwan and in South Korea …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805101
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Moderator effects to internal audits' self-efficacy and job involvement
Shih, Kuang-Hsun; Hsieh, Yin-Ru; Lin, Binshan - In: International Journal of Accounting and Information … 17 (2009) June, pp. 151-165
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between two variables, self-efficacy and job involvement, of internal auditors of companies. It also aims to explore its intervention on self-efficacy and job involvement using organizational power as another variable....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511311
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Leverage, liquidity and IPO long-run performance: evidence from Taiwan IPO markets
Chen, Anlin; Chen, Li-Wei; Kao, Lanfeng - In: International Journal of Accounting and Information … 18 (2010) February, pp. 31-38
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-run performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) in Taiwan … consists of 261 IPOs issued in Taiwan over-the-counter during 1991 and 2002. The actual data cover the period from January 1991 … to December 2007. Findings – Contrary to findings of previous studies on US IPO markets, the paper finds that Taiwan IPOs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511315
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The association between relative deprivation and self-rated health, depressive symptoms, and smoking behavior in Taiwan
Kuo, Chun-Tung; Chiang, Tung-liang - In: Social Science & Medicine 89 (2013) C, pp. 39-44
-sectional data from the National Survey on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Health Promotion in Taiwan, this study examined the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678854
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Are Immigrant Wives Happy in Taiwan? A Look at the Role of Bargaining Power Within the Married Couples
Chang, Hung-Hao; Liao, Pei-An - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 16 (2015) 2, pp. 295-312
study contributes to this interesting topic by investigating the happiness of immigrant wives in Taiwan. Special attention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241396
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International labor migration in Vietnam and the impact of receiving countries' policies
Ishizuka, Futaba - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Labor export has been part of Vietnam’s socio-economic development strategy since the beginning of the doi moi era. Recent years, Vietnam has sent about 80,000 workers abroad per year. Vietnam has become a major source country of unskilled foreign workers for high-income East Asian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147335
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On the use of AFOSM to estimate major earthquake probabilities in Taiwan
Wang, J.; Kuo-Chen, H. - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 3, pp. 2577-2587
>w</Subscript>. The AFOSM analysis shows that the probability could be as high as 64 % for a major earthquake in northern Taiwan to exceed … ± 1 mm per year. By contrast, the other case study shows that for the Meishan fault in central Taiwan, the probability is …
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