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Born lucky – or just lucky to be born rich? A note
Groezinger, Gerd - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 4, pp. 430-435
A paper by social psychologists proclaimed that, for UK citizens, it could be shown that being born in the summer half-year was associated with a significantly higher belief in being lucky, compared with being born in the winter half-year. Are we that much determined by nonsocial forces? A test...
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Warum Väter ihre Erwerbstätigkeit (nicht) unterbrechen: Mikroökonomische versus in der Persönlichkeit des Vaters begründete Determinanten der Inanspruchnahme von Elternzeit durch V...
Vogt, Ann-Cathrin; Pull, Kerstin - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 24 (2010) 1, pp. 48-68
This paper explores the determinants of a father's decision to take parental leave. While the number of fathers in … microeconomic and personality based determinants of a father's decision to take parental leave. Our empirical analysis is based on … father's decision to take parental leave is more strongly influenced by economic determinants than by the father …
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Determinants of initial public offerings: The case of Poland
Meluzín, Tomá; Zinecker, Marek; Lapi´nska, Justyna - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 18 (2014), pp. 5-17
The main objective of this study is to indicate the in uence of local macroeconomic factors, consequently GDP growth rates, the reference interest rate, industrial production growth rates, Warsaw Stock Exchange Index (WIG) returns and the volume of private equity investments, on the number of...
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Modelling the Intra-Metropolitan Location of Foreign Investment Firms in Istanbul
Turk, Sevkiye Sence; Berkoz, Lale - 2006
is based on a sample of 100 companies that were surveyed in in Istanbul in 2003. Locational determinants of foreign …
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Country-specific determinants of horizontal and vertical intra-industry agri-food trade of the Visegrad Countries
Jambor, Attila - 2013
The article analyses patterns and country-specific determinants of Visegrad Countries' (VC) agri-food trade with the … European Union. Literature focusing on the country-specific determinants of vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade is … suggestions. Moreover, it seeks to identify the determinants of horizontal and vertical intra-industry trade of the Visegrad …
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Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Fast-Growing Economies: A Study of BRICS and MINT
Uduak, Akpan; Salisu, Isihak; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
This study employs panel analysis to examine the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Brazil, Russia ….e. 2001 - 2011. First, it uses pooled time-series cross sectional analysis to estimate the model on determinants of FDI for … determinants of FDI by extending the scope of previous studies which often focus only on BRICS. …
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Rural Mortality from External Causes in Russian Regions
Blinova, Tatiana - 2014
models of the factors and determinants of the existing interregional differences in the pattern of rural mortality from …, which made it possible to identify the determinants of rural mortality from external causes and describe their spatial …
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Determinants of local public expenditures on education: Empirical evidence for Indonesian districts between 2005 and 2012
Bischoff, Ivo; Prasetyia, Ferry - 2015
We provide an empirical analysis of the factors that drive expenditures on primary and secondary education in Indonesian districts. We use a panel-data set covering 398 districts between 2005 and 2012. We account for the impact of socio-economic, political and geographical factors on...
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The Entrepreneurial Ladder and its Determinants
van der Zwan, Peter; Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - 2006
We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...
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Entrepreneurial Progress: Climbing The Entrepreneurial Ladder in Europe and The US
van der Zwan, Peter; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; … - 2009
We investigate which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress. This progress is defined using an entrepreneurial ladder with five successive steps: “never thought about starting a business”, “thinking about starting a business”, “taking steps to start a...
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