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Gender equality and the math gender gap
Anghel, Brindusa; Rodríguez Planas, Nuria; … - 2020
En su influyente artículo, Guiso et al. (2008) descubrieron una relación positiva entre distintas medidas de igualdad de género y la brecha de género en matemáticas (que tiende a favorecer a los niños), explotando la variación de datos transversales de las puntuaciones en las pruebas de...
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Welcoming remarks
Delgado Tejero, Margarita
Evento: Pathways to Gender Equality in Central Banks. Organizado por: IEA, BE y Banco de la Rep. de Colombia ; Giving visibility to issues related to gender diversity, are key to finding solutions to the waste of talent that involves not taking this diversity into account, consequently putting...
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Die gesetzliche Frauenquote in Deutschland
Amling, Svenja - 2010
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird auf eine per Gesetz vorgeschriebene Frauenquote in Deutschland eingegangen. Im Fokus steht die Frage, ob Frauendiskriminierung durch eine solche Vorschrift tatsächlich bekämpft werden kann oder ob vielmehr die Männer diskriminiert würden. Zudem werden...
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Agricultural policy analysis in Finland with the AGMEMOD model: Lessons to be learnt?
Niemi, Jyrki S.; Kettunen, Lauri - 2011
(CAP) on the agri-food sector in Finland. To meet the objective, aneconometric model for Finnish agriculture - built as a …
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Modelling physical quantities of food and nutrients consumed from aggregate data – with an application to Finland
Irz, Xavier T. - 2009
Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because physical quantities are: 1- not consistent aggregates in...
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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975
Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980
This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...
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Hybrid Organizations as Agents of Positive Social Change: Bridging the For-profit & Non-profit Divide
Hoffman, Andrew J.; Haigh, Nardia - 2010
This chapter explores the distinctive characteristics of hybrid organizations; a new organizational form that expands our existing categories of organizations by bridging the for-profit and non-profit domains. In particular, we utilize a positive lens to explore the role of hybrids in creating...
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What is brand mimicry? a conceptual investigation in the luxury brand industry
Huimin, Teah - 2010
innovation. While Mimicry has been applied to various areas of sciences such as engineering, biomimetics and behavioural sciences … whether mimicry inhibits innovation, or which type of mimicry would be better evaluated. As such, mimicry in Marketing is …
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Patents and Antitrust: Application to Adjacent Markets
Economides, Nicholas; Herbert, WILLIAM N.; Calvo and … - NYU Stern School of Business - 2007
between innovation and economic efficiency.Where a patent holder's invention uses an interface with adjacentproducts, the … goods; design changes tomedical devices; and changes in drug formulas. While the patent lawsprovide a spur to innovation by …
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The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999
Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej - 2009
This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …
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