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"Happy accidents": Innovation-driven opportunities and perspectives for development in the knowledge economy
Carayannis, Elias G.; Campbell, David F. J.; Rehman, … - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 4 (2015), pp. 1-16
From Development as Democracy to Innovation as Development: Current local, regional, and global economic and financial conditions and trends make the need to trigger, catalyze and accelerate high quantity and quality entrepreneurial initiatives that are based on high quality and quantity...
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Wo schaffen es Frauen an die Spitze? Eine empirische Analyse mit Betriebsdaten
Ellguth, Peter; Kohaut, Susanne; Möller, Iris - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 24 (2017) 2, pp. 196-217
Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche betrieblichen Faktoren die Präsenz von Frauen in Führungspositionen beeinflussen. Hierbei interessiert uns auch die Rolle des Betriebsrats. Für unsere multivariate Analyse nutzen wir das IAB-Betriebspanel 2014 und verwenden Zähldatenmodelle mit der...
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Combining CGE and microsimulation models: Effects on equality of VAT reforms
Åvitsland, Turid; Aasness, Jørgen - 2004
The effects on the degree of equality of reforms in indirect taxation are analysed by using a microsimulation model of … increase in equality while the change in equality concerning the uniform reform is close to 0. With the uniform VAT reform, as … equality. Changed producer prices and changed pre-tax nominal incomes, wealth and transfers both contribute to this. …
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Das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (AGG) als Sparversion – Ergebnisse einer Unternehmensbefragung / Application of the “General Equal Treatment Act” – without expected legal ac...
Rastetter, Daniela; Raasch, Sibylle - In: Arbeit 18 (2009) 3, pp. 186-199
equality stakeholders. The results show that not only legal action failed to appear, but also the companies have changed their … equality issues are being discussed.  …
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Income Inequality and Racial/Ethnic Infant Mortality in the United States
Jesmin, Syeda Sarah - 2008
The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality rates (IMRs) for African-Americans. The conceptual framework for this study is derived from Richard Wilkinson's psychosocial environment interpretation of the income inequality and...
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Fairly satisfied : economic equality, wealth and satisfaction
O'Connell, Michael F. - 2004
. It was hypothesised that a greater association might be found between satisfaction and equality of income distribution … rather than between satisfaction and size of income. The interrelationship between wealth (GDPpc), equality of income and … mean satisfaction for fifteen EU states was assessed over a four year period (1995-1998). Equality of income was …
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Revisiting CES utility functions for distributional preferences: Do people face the equality-efficiency trade-off?
Inukai, Keigo; Shimodaira, Yuta; Shiozawa, Kohei - 2022
equality-efficiency trade-off," a conventional interpretation of the substitution parameter, is unrelated to observed …
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Empirical properties of an extended CES utility function in representing distributional preferences
Inukai, Keigo; Shimodaira, Yuta; Shiozawa, Kohei - 2022
provides evidence that the distribution parameter of the extended CES utility function measures the preference for equality or …
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Minimum wage policy and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Gindling, Thomas; Ronconi, Lucas - 2023
In this chapter reviews the literature and inform policy debates about the effects of minimum wages (MW) on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
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Globalization and inequality in Latin America
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023
We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on research emerging from the late 2000s onward, with an emphasis on empirical work considering new mechanisms, studying new dimensions of inequality, and developing new...
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