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There's no place like home : a strategic framework to overcome liability of foreignness in the German car market
Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor); Zimmermann, Jörg (contributor) - 2005
Germany through firm-specific advantages. Still, some face significant challenges. A submarket analysis shows that home market … advantages are more deeply rooted in the Western part of Germany and that foreign competitors find a more accessible competitive … environment in Eastern Germany. Therefore, East Germany is a superior platform for deploying effective and efficient …
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Fairness and division of labor in market societies : a comparison of the US and German automotive industries
Kwon, Hyeong-ki - 2004
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, Naci; Tekin, Erdal - In: The review of economics and statistics 92 (2010) 1, pp. 15-30
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, Naci (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
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Plastic surgery : investment in human capital or consumption?
Lee, Soohyung; Ryu, Keunkwan - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 6 (2012) 3, pp. 224-250
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2006
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Ugly Criminals
Mocan, Naci H.; Tekin, Erdal - 2022
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
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Ugly Criminals
Mocan, Naci - 2006
These results suggest two handicaps faced by unattractive individuals. First, a labor market penalty provides a direct incentive for unattractive individuals toward criminal activity. Second, the level of beauty in high school has an effect on criminal propensity 7-8 years later, which seems to...
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The effect of foreign accent on employability : a study of the aural dimensions of aesthetic labour in customer-facing and non-customer-facing jobs
Timming, Andrew R. - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 31 (2017) 3, pp. 409-428
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Ugly Criminals
Mocan, Naci H.; Tekin, Erdal - 2006
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059082