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The Transnational Illegal Market of Trafficking in Human Beings – Actors and Discourses : A Transatlantic Comparison
Nautz, Jürgen - 2011
The paper analyses the development of trafficking in human beings (THB) as an economic crime and as a severe violation of human rights by focusing on the different actors' involved in counter-trafficking efforts. The paper outlines how the crime evolved in Austria, Germany and the United States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125609
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Evolution Of Sex Gap In Life Expectancy Across High-Income Countries : Universal Patterns And Country-Specific Attributes
Vergeles, Marina - 2021
The sex gap in life expectancy (LE) at birth is currently narrowing in all high-income countries. Previous research on Western European and English-speaking (WE&ES) countries suggested that smoking-related mortality at ages 50+ was largely responsible for both widening and subsequent narrowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313198
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Inequality in socioemotional skills : a cross-cohort comparison
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Blundell, Richard W.; Conti, Gabriella - 2018
We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct socio-emotional scales comparable across cohorts for both boys and girls, using two validated instruments for the measurement of child behaviour. We identify two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912964
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Are Italy and Spain Mediterranean sisters? A comparison of corporate governance systems
Aguilera, Ruth V. - In: Corporate governance in a changing economic and …, (pp. 23-70). 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001921604
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Social comparisons and groundwater use : evidence from Colorado and Kansas
Hrozencik, R. Aaron; Suter, Jordan F.; Ferraro, Paul J.; … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 106 (2024) 2, pp. 946-966
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Excluding the rural population : the impact of public expenditure on child malnutrition in Peru
Gajate-Garrido, Gissele - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207305
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Agricultura, alimentação e desenvolvimento rural na China e no Brasil: uma análise institucional comparativa
Escher, Fabiano - 2020 - 1a edição
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518275
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Analysis of the economic, labour, and management effects of COVID-19 on rural accommodation : an application to a rural European province (Cáceres, Spain)
Sánchez-Rivero, Marcelino; Rodríguez-Rangel, Mª Cristina - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 12 (2022) 2, pp. 1-17
quantify in relative terms the effects that the period of compulsory lockdown in a markedly tourist country, such as Spain …, between March and May 2020 has had on rural accommodation in one of the most rural provinces of Spain (Cáceres). Based on a … comparison of means and proportions were used to detect differences in the intensity of the effects of the compulsory lockdown on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013203140
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New rural geographies in Europe : actors, processes, policies
Steinführer, Annett (ed.); Heindl, Anna-Barbara (ed.);  … - New Rural Geographies in Europe: Actors, Processes, … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433102
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Der Jakobsweg als Faktor touristischer Entwicklung in ländlichen Regionen : Castilla y León und Brandenburg im Vergleich
Maak, Katharina - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013433928