Although there are hundreds of works using PISA microdata to analyse the determinants of educational outcomes, only a few of them have considered the relevance of geography. In this paper, we focus on the analysis of differences in educational outcomes between students in rural and urban...

In den 200 größten Unternehmen weltweit entfiel im Juni 2004 nur etwa ein Zehntel aller Sitze in den Aufsichtsräten (Boards) auf Frauen. Hierzu gehören 22 Unternehmen mit einem Frauenanteil von mindestens 25 % im Aufsichtsrat, darunter drei deutsche Unternehmen. Diese Positionierung geht...

It is known that cities are the engines of growth of the modern economy and society. Herewith we highlight the national and regional characteristics of urbanization as a global process. Somewhere the urbanization is stimulated, in China for example, somewhere it is limited, as we see in Russia....

This paper discusses the mobile number's status as a general purpose identifier in digital customer journeys. The strength and availability of the mobile number as ID is assessed across several markets and examples of use are given. Two cases where the mobile number already is a trusted resource...