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Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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Using the Youth in Transition Survey we estimate a Roy model with a three dimensional latent factor structure to consider how parental valuation of education, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills influence endogenous schooling decisions and subsequent labour market outcomes in Canada. We...
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Die Nutzung innovativer Technologien, wie Selbstbedienungskassen (SB-Kassen) bietet Einzelhändlern einen Ansatz, um die Qualität der Unternehmens-Kunden-Beziehung zu erhöhen. Die Frage nach den demografischen Einflussfaktoren, wie z. Bsp. dem Geschlecht, auf die Nutzungsbereitschaft dieser...
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Contents: Foreword / by Sally Hardy -- 1. Introduction: Pipeline break / Henry Etzkowitz, Helen Lawton Smith, Colette Henry and Alexandra Poulovassilis -- Part I: Gender cultures and institutions -- 2. Being an early career academic: is there space for gender-equality in the neoliberal...
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The current study investigates how board gender diversity moderates the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms (CG) and earnings management (EM) practices of firms in sub-Saharan Africa. The study samples annual reports and financial statements of 52 firms from nine sub-Saharan...
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Eine bedeutende Säule der Innovationspolitik ist die Unterstützung des Wissenstransfers und die Verwertung marktfähiger Erfindungen aus der Hochschulforschung. Trotz der Unterstützung der Wissensverwertung bleibt ein großer Teil von Innovationen aus der Forschungstätigkeit an deutschen...
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Eine bedeutende Säule der Innovationspolitik ist die Unterstützung des Wissenstransfers und die Verwertung marktfähiger Erfindungen aus der Hochschulforschung. Trotz der Unterstützung der Wissensverwertung bleibt ein großer Teil von Innovationen aus der Forschungstätigkeit an deutschen...
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We analyze the gender gap in the success of patent application at the USPTO. We leverage quasi-exogeneous variation from the random assignment of patent examiners within technology fields, allowing us to find the causal impact of examiner characteristics on the application success. We find...
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Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the workforce, there could be profound implications for...
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Gender differences in innovation financing are well documented but poorly understood. We study applicants to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Small Business Innovation Research program, a public initiative seeking to increase access for women. Despite a mission objective to fund...
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