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Chapter 57 Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...
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Education through the lens of sustainable human development
Moretti, Gianna Alessandra Sanchez - 2016
education. However, it is alleged that the international community and governments worldwide do not yet recognise the full … potential and transformative power of education as a catalyst for human development, even if education is indeed considered a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459763
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Temporary Agency Work and Firm Performance: Evidence from German Establishment-Level Panel Data
Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - 2009
This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to the question, whether there are performance differences between firms using temporary agency workers (TAWs) as a buffer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390637
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Temporärbeschäftigung und Unternehmenserfolg: Eine empirische Untersuchung anhand schweizerischer und deutscher Firmendaten
Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - 2009
Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss von Temporärbeschäftigung auf den Unternehmenserfolg empirisch unter Verwendung repräsentativer Datensätze für Unternehmen in der Schweiz respektive für Betriebe in Deutschland. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Frage gelegt, ob es...
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The nexus between labor diversity and firm's innovation
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012
instrumental variable strategies, we are able to identify the contribution of workers' diversity in cultural background, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289952
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Temporärbeschäftigung und Unternehmenserfolg : eine empirische Untersuchung anhand schweizerischer und deutscher Firmendaten
Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - 2009
Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss von Temporärbeschäftigung auf den Unternehmenserfolg empirisch unter Verwendung repräsentativer Datensätze für Unternehmen in der Schweiz respektive für Betriebe in Deutschland. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Frage gelegt, ob es...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003891707
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The nexus between labor diversity and firm's innovation
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012
instrumental variable strategies, we are able to identify the contribution of workers' diversity in cultural background, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663943
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Explaining the MENA paradox : rising educational attainment, yet stagnant female labor force participation
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Hendy, Rana; Lassassi, Moundir; … - 2018
Despite rapidly rising female educational attainment and the closing if not reversal of the gender gap in education … probability of public sector employment for women with higher education is associated with either an increase in unemployment or a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810299
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Labor heterogeneity and the pattern of trade
Alfonso, Cebreros Zurita Carlos - 2018
This article combines data on trade flows with a novel construction of the distribution of skill in the population, based on the results from the International Adult Literacy Survey of the OECD, to evaluate the empirical importance of the distribution of talent as a determinant of the sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011771970
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Temporary agency work and firm performance : evidence from German establishment-level panel data
Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - 2009
This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to the question, whether there are performance differences between firms using temporary agency workers (TAWs) as a buffer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003891298