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Projektbericht "Entscheidungsträger in Deutschland: Werte und Einstellungen"
Bunselmeyer, Elisabeth; Holland-Cunz, Marc; Dribbisch, … - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2013
Der Bericht beschreibt Erkenntnisinteresse, Anlage und Erstellung der Studie 'Entscheidungsträger in Deutschland: Werte und Einstellungen'. Im Mittelpunkt der Befragung stehen die gesellschaftspolitischen Einstellungen und Handlungsmaximen sowie die Karrieremotive und Lebensverläufe der...
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Women’s Economic Empowerment as the “Magic Potion†of Development?
Blumberg, Rae Lesser - eSocialSciences - 2008
Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion.†[Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of...
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Gossip, Sexual Recombination and the El Farol Bar: Modelling the Emergence of Heterogeneity
Edmonds, Bruce - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 2 (1999) 3, pp. 2-2
An investigation into the conditions conducive to the emergence of heterogeneity amoung agents is presented. This is done by using a model of creative artificial agents to investigate some of the possibilities. The simulation is based on Brian Arthurs `El Farol Bar model but extended so that the...
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Groups of Agents with a Leader
Gigliotta, Onofrio; Miglino, Orazio; Parisi, Domenico - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10 (2007) 4, pp. 1-1
We describe simulations of groups of agents that have to reach a target in a two dimensional environment, the performance criterion being the time taken by the last agent to reach the target. If the target is within a given distance from the agent, the agent moves towards the target; otherwise...
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The Impact of Hierarchies on Wages.
Meagher, K. - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 1998
The failure of human capital theory to explain firm related effects on wages, new empirical approaches to internal … jobs within firms, help determine wages. The least developped approach to this new area is the theory of hierarchies, which … springs originally from industrial organization and the theory of the firm. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the …
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Capabilities, Culture and Social Structure
Jackson, William - In: Review of Social Economy 63 (2005) 1, pp. 101-124
institutions. Although Sen acknowledges this, he expresses his theory in individualistic terms and makes little allowance for … culture or social structure. The present paper draws from recent social theory to discuss how the capability approach could be …
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The Genesis and Progress of the Socially Embedded Firm.
Sornn-Friese, Henrik - Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, …
In his seminal article Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness Granovetter argued that economic action is embedded in social relations and structures that affect its functioning, and that economic action should be analyzed as such. In theories of the business firm the...
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Who killed in Rwanda’s genocide? Micro-space, social influence and individual participation in intergroup violence
McDoom, Omar Shahabudin - In: Journal of Peace Research 50 (2013) 4, pp. 453-467
In episodes of intergroup violence, which group members participate and which do not? Although such violence is frequently framed as occurring between distinct ethnic, racial or sectarian groups, it is easily overlooked that it is usually only a subset of the group’s members who in fact...
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Social structure bureaucracy and corruptionA
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Using the principal-agent- supervisor paradigm, this paper examines the occurrence of collusion in a setting where the principal has no information about the supervisor and the agent does not necessarily know the supervisor’s preferences. We formally prove the occurrence of collusion is more...
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The Socially Stable Core in Structured Transferable Utility Games
Herings, P. Jean-Jacques; Laan, Gerard van der; Talman, Dolf - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Games and Economic Behavior', 2007, 59, 85-104. <P> We consider cooperative games with transferable utility (TU-games), in which we allow for a social structure on the set of players. The social structure is utilized to refine the core of the...</p>
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