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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria

Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years

Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R - 2011

The extent of openness to international trade may alter incentives differentially by gender for labor force participation, particularly in economies in which gender differentials in human capital investments such as schooling are large and in which norms about gender behaviors are strong. This...

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Assessing the Problem of Human Capital Mismatch in Transition Economies

Druska, Viliam; Jeong, Byeong ju; Kejak, Michal; … - 2002

training type (holding the level) and occupation. We document that in the Czech Republic and Poland the wage rate grew faster …

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The Future of the Rhode Island Economy

LeShane, James C. - 2010

No one would argue that the economy in the United States has been faltering in recent years; due in part to global factors, and even with stimulus plans offered by the Federal Government, there is increased burden on states to find forms of revenue. More and more, states must compete not only...

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Policy Responses to 2008 High Food Prices: Domestic Incentives and Global Implications

Woolverton, Andrea E.; Kiawu, James - 2009

Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...

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Who Benefits from Quality Labelling? Segregation Costs, International Trade and Producer Outcomes

Jackson, Lee Ann - 2003

This paper analyses the impact of quality based labelling on product prices,factor allocation and the resulting effects on producers within the context of aninternational trading system. A general equilibrium model, calibrated to 1998 data,describes United States and European Union labelling...

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REVENUE MANAGEMENT AND PERCEPTIONS OF FAIRNESS

Choi, ChoongBeom - 2010

’s reputation with a revenue management pricing practice. This study found that framing and fencing condition had a significant … effect on customers’ fairness perception, respectively. In addition, this study found that reputation moderated the effect of … framing on perceived fairness. When the hotel had a poor reputation, framing as a discount rather than framing as a surcharge …

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Xtending Likages Between Organizational Analysis and Social Structure: A Case Study of the Celebrity-Construction of a Chinese Marketplace

Jacobs, Mark - 2009

focuses on various firm-external social constructions: legitimacy, reputation, and status, and how they impact the emergence …

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Reputation Flows: Contractual Disputes and the Channels for Inter-firm Communication

Pyle, William - 2003

conduits for reputation flows seems to be more strategic than the use of unmediated communication in that it is highly …

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Quality Certification by Geographical Indications, Trademarks and Firm Reputation

Menapace, Luisa; Moschini, GianCarlo - 2010

We study firm reputation as a mechanism to assure product quality in perfectly competitive marketsin a context in which … withasymmetric information and moral hazard problems, credible certification schemes reduce the costof establishing reputation and … the ability of reputation to operate as amechanism for assuring quality. Second, the actual design of the certification …

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