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New technology-based ventures (NTBVs) gain access to beneficial social capital through their affiliation with technology incubators, organizations created to facilitate learning leading to the successful development of nascent firms. Scillitoe and Chakrabarti (2005, 2) identified three sources...
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Across the world, people in urban rather than rural areas are more likely to support gender equality. To explain this global trend, this paper engages with geographically diverse literature and comparative rural-urban ethnographic research from Zambia. It argues that people living in...
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We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...
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Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews the emerging literature which sheds light on this question, considering research in four broad areas: i) behavioral endocrinology; ii) human genetics; iii) neuroeconomics; and...
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Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews the emerging literature which sheds light on this question, considering research in four broad areas: i) behavioral endocrinology; ii) human genetics; iii) neuroeconomics; and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594118
Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building...
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This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process from 2014 to 2018. Reports from the WTO Secretariat,...
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This study addresses a research gap in mobile banking (M-banking) related to post service usage consumer behavior and … relation to three socio-economic variables i.e. gender, age and income. The study attempts to identify whether the impact of …
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-government services. Specifically, this article sought to examine the extent to which demographic factors such as age, gender and … SPSS. The results indicate that age as a demographic factor was significant in determining the willingness of citizens to …
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entrepreneurial intention of Vietnamese business students. Three hundred seventy-two undergraduate and post-graduate business students … Independent Sample T-test and One-way ANOVA. Demographic factors include gender, age ranges and education level, family background …, albeit again insignificantly. Age and education levels show practically no impact. These results are in clear contradiction …
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