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Environmental melodrama, coal, and the politics of sustainable energy in The Last Mountain
Schwarze, Steve; Peeples, Jennifer; Schneider, Jen; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 17 (2014) 2, pp. 108-122
mining in West Virginia known as mountaintop removal (MTR). The Last Mountain was the first of more than 40 MTR films to be … film's use of environmental melodrama to define the problems related to MTR and create identification between victims of … MTR and viewers. However, the latter portion of the film attempts to scale up from the melodramatic depiction of MTR to …
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2006
Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...
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Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship?
Parker, Simon C. - 2009
I explore the factors that determine whether new business opportunities are exploited by starting a new venture for an employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06...
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Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers
Jurajda, Štepán - 2001
In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time...
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Selection and the age-productivity profile : evidence from chess players
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 110 (2015), pp. 45-58
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Estimating the effect of unemployment insurance compensation on the labor market histories of displaced workers
Jurajda, Štěpán - 2001
In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401354
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Credit standards and capital allocation in a low interest rate environment
Andersen, Svend Greniman; Kuchler, Andreas - 2016
Using firm-level data from surveys and financial statements, this paper presents an analysis of credit standards, capital allocation and financial conditions of non-financial enterprises in Denmark since the beginning of the financial crisis. The analysis indicates that low interest rates and...
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Upstream innovation and product variety in the U.S. home PC market
Eizenberg, Alon - In: The review of economic studies 81 (2014) 3, pp. 1003-1045
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Bounds on direct and indirect effects under treatment/mediator endogeneity and outcome attrition
Huber, Martin; Lafférs, Lukás - 2020
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On farm non-agricultural activities : geographical determinants of diversification and intensification strategy
Boncinelli, Fabio; Bartolini, Fabio; Casini, Leonardo; … - In: Letters in spatial and resource sciences : LSRS 10 (2017) 1, pp. 17-29
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