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Labour Supply and Earning Functions of Educated Married Women: A Case Study of Northern Punjab
Ahmad, Eatzaz - In: The Pakistan Development Review 46 (2007) 1, pp. 45-62
This study analyses labour supply of educated married women in Mandi Bahauddin, a typical district of northern Punjab in Pakistan. The study finds that the education level and economic compulsion are important factors affecting women s labour force participation decision. But, otherwise, they...
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Transition from Work to Retirement in EU25
Fuchs, Michael; Makovec, Mattia; Zaidi, Asghar - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2006
The policy agenda of extending working lives requires a holistic understanding of factors underlying the decision of older workers to withdraw from work and to retire. This brief paper presents employment patterns and trends of older people across EU Member States and identifies policy...
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Performance, Firm Size and the Heterogeneity of Competetive Strategy for Long-lived Small Firms: A Simultaneous Equations Approach
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C. - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 2003
This paper examines the relationship between firm size, competitive strategy and performance, for the long-lived small … be long-lived. In a three-equation simultaneous model, performance, size and the dimensions of the competitive strategy …SLS. A trade-off is found to exist between firm size and performance. Further, we find that to attain higher equilibrium …
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Green Microfinance: Characteristics of Microfinance Institutions Involved in Environmental Management
Allet, Marion; Hudon, Marek - In: Journal of Business Ethics 126 (2015) 3, pp. 395-414
In recent years, development practice has seen that microfinance institutions (MFIs) are starting to consider their environmental bottom line in addition to their financial and social objectives. Yet, little is known about the characteristics of institutions involved in environmental management....
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Instability, Precariousness, Insecurity: What Do We Mean when We Talk About «Job Insecurity»?
Giovanni, Abbiati - In: Stato e mercato (2012) 2, pp. 323-356
In scientific literature there is a great conceptual confusion about thedefinition of «job insecurity». In fact, jobs can be insecure for three main reasons:because they are subjectively felt insecure; because they are short-term by contract; or,finally, because of short tenure. Following...
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Investment style of Jordanian mutual funds
Hacini, Ishaq; Dahou, Khadra; Benbouziane, Mohamed - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 113-127
The study investigates the mutual funds investment style in the Jordanian context. It uses monthly returns of five mutual funds from July 2000 to December 2009. To do so, it employs the 4-factors model with explanatory variables the market portfolio return, a small minus large capitalization...
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Pricing the Fish Market- Does size matter?
Sjöberg, Eric - Department of Economics, University of Utah - 2014
The importance of fish size for price per kilo is studied using an inverse demand approach. Prices per kilo in … different size categories of the same species differ significantly. This means that the average price for a species may change … due to e.g., high-grading, growth overfishing or a changing climate which all have the potential to change the size …
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USING DEPOSIT INTEREST RATES IN SETTING LOAN INTEREST RATES: EVIDENCE FROM TURKEY
Kaymaz, Önder; Kaymaz, Özgür - In: The International Journal of Business and Finance Research 5 (2011) 3, pp. 45-53
Bank credit margins are set by two dynamics: loan interest rates and deposit interest rates. The latter is the leading funding cost for the commercial banks. Sampling the period running from the last financial quarter of 2002 to the last financial quarter of 2009, we consider all the listed...
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Size and Volatility: new evidence from an application of wavelet approach to the emerging Islamic mutual funds’ industry
Alaabed, Alaa; Masih, Mansur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
-correlations between small, medium and large size Islamic mutual funds. …
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Intensive versus Extensive Dairy Production Systems: Dairy States in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. and Key Pasture Countries the E.U.: Determining the Competitive Edge
Nehring, Richard F.; Sauer, Johannes; Gillespie, Jeffrey M. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011
characteristics are compared by size and production system in traditional U.S. dairy states and E.U. countries. …
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