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Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2021
We analyse the effect of strong and weak ties on the individual probability of finding a job. Using the dynamic model of Calvó-Armengol and Jackson (2004), two results are put forward: (i) the individual probability of finding a job is increasing in the number of strong and weak ties; (ii) the...
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Lending to Women in Microfinance : Influence of Social Trust and National Culture
Aggarwal, Raj - 2015
The preference of microfinance institutions for women borrowers is generally attributed to two reasons: women borrowers … women more in low trust countries, suggesting that women are targeted to offset low social trust. We also examine how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034424
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Economic Crisis, Trust and Socio-Economic Aspects of Sustainable Development
Kossecki, Pawel - 2012
Authors described relationships between economic crisis and crisis of trust. The paper identifies elements, which play significant role in trust building and destruction. Consequences of behavioral factors of the market players were discussed. Relationships between the social status, higher...
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The Politics of Anti-Dumping in Dispute Settlement : The Trade Predator's Constant Dilemma
Drache, Daniel - 2013
While countries continue to negotiate new mega free trade agreements in the EU and the US, they increasingly rely on anti-dumping laws to protect their industries from predatory pricing and the high costs of global structural change. Legally sanctioned protectionism has become a prominent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072312
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Global Warming : A Second Coming for International Law?
Badrinarayana, Deepa - 2010
Currently, there are no adequate mechanisms under international law to balance the competing tensions climate change presents to state sovereignty. On one hand, climate change threatens state sovereignty because the catastrophic loss of life and property of millions of people would deprive...
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Stuck in Tunnel : Is Globalization Muddling the Middle?
Birdsall, Nancy; Graham, Carol; Pettinato, Stefano - 2014
Our objective in this paper is to assess how middle-income groups are faring with the global turn to the market. We suggest some simple measures of the middle--the size and income share of households around the median (75/125%)--and their income status relative to wealthier counterparts. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127690
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Dalits to Accept Globalisation : Lessons from the Past and Present
Ramaiah, Dr. A. - 2004
The India's most exploited people, the Dalits, have been raising voice against the ongoing process of globalisation fearing that it would gradually lead to a total dismantling of whatever protective and developmental measures, including the reservation policy, guaranteed in their favour in the...
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El Cooperativismo en Tiempos de Crisis (Cooperation in Times of Crisis)
Salvatori, Gianluca - 2012
Over the last decades our society has been guided by the conviction that the traditional for-profit corporation is the only viable type of enterprise in the global economic system. According to this approach, the for-profit enterprise model has spread worldwide, while other forms of enterprises,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040496
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Negotiating Rights Through Transnational Puritan Networks : Religious Discourses; Cyber Technology and Pakistani Women
Rashid, Tahmina - 2014
Women's rights in Pakistan continue to be debated in the current political climate in Pakistan, after the state … approval for Nizam-i-Adl. The question of women's rights needs to be examined in the context of their class, ethnic and rural … existing legal frameworks defining and redefining their public/private role. This paper argues that women are actively involved …
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Positioning Women Homeworkers in a Global Footwear Production Network : Identifying Barriers and Enablers to Claiming Rights
Delaney, Annie - 2015
This paper theorises the position of women footwear homeworkers through the lens of global production networks. Using …
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