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Determinants of Spain's decision to leave the European Monetary Union
Estella, Antonio - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013
Spain is the Member State of the European Union whose public opinion is most in favour to exit the Eurozone. In this context, there is a growing social and political debate on this Number in this Member State. This paper analyses at a theoretical level the main economic and socio political...
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Gender Segregation in the Workplace and Wage Gaps: Evidence from Urban Mexico 1994-2004
Calónico, Sebastián; Ñopo, Hugo R. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … and wage gaps. The results suggest that the complete elimination of hierarchical segregation would reduce the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654153
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Negative Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa
Aguero, Jorge - EconWPA - 2005
This paper proposes a new test to distinguish between the two leading theories of discrimination: preference versus information. Discrimination based on preferences occurs when people behave as if they refuse to change their stereotypes about the capabilities of discriminated individuals. Those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076553
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Labour standards and ILO’s effectiveness in the governance of globalization
Onida, Fabrizio - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2008
The paper starts with a brief recollection of International Labor Office (ILO)’s historical milestones – ILO being the only tripartite international organization with representatives of labour, industry and governments - covering the main Conventions on labour standards (including the four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087117
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New Nationalism and Development in Africa: review article
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005668422
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The Hungarian minority question in Slovakia and Romania
Lugosi, Nicole V.T. - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research (2011) 2, pp. 111-120
With the redrawing of European borders following the First World War, some 5 million ethnic Hungarians were assigned minority status in neighboring countries that acquired lands formerly part of Greater Hungary. Discourse analysis of national constitutions reveal that policies toward minorities...
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CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 55/2014 FOR REGULATING CERTAIN MEASURES CONCERNING THE LOCAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
FODOR, Elena Mihaela - In: Curentul Juridic, The Juridical Current, Le Courant … 60 (2015) March, pp. 27-38
The Government Emergency Ordinance no. 55/2014 suspended for 45 days the dispositions of art. art. 9 par. (2) letter h1) and art. 15 par. (2) letter g1) from the Law No. 393/2004 that sanction the migration between parties with termination of the mandate for elected local officials. Starting...
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THEORETICAL APPROACHES ON THE ECONOMIC CONTENT OF THE CATEGORY "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY"
NOVAC, Alexandra - In: ECONOMY AND SOCIOLOGY: Theoretical and Scientifical Journal (2013) 4, pp. 167-170
The phenomenon of the intellectual property is becoming more known, exceeding the dimensions of law and legal rules governing the protection of intellectual activity’s results. The approach to the category of intellectual property from the economic point of view is less studied, in comparison...
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Analyse Economique du Droit versus Institutionnalisme. Une comparaison "en situation".
Montagne, Sabine - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2009
Cet article propose de comparer deux lectures d’économie du droit portant sur un même objet empirique, l’épargne salariée états-unienne, mais menées respectivement dans le cadre de la Law & Economics néoclassique et dans le cadre de la Théorie de la régulation. Ces deux approches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532712
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Los Derechos Humanos y el siglo XXI
Angulo Sánchez, Nicolás - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2010) 12, pp. 1-26
Human rights are powers or facilities granted or recognized as inherent to individuals and human groups, so they can claim from other individuals or groups, and at the extreme from public authorities (local, regional, national or international), specific actions and services necessary to a life...
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