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Precautionary Saving and Income Uncertainty in Germany – New Evidence from Microdata

Bartzsch, Nikolaus - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 228 (2008) 1, pp. 5-24

Summary This paper uses microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyse the importance of precautionary saving under income uncertainty. In a cross-section of households, wealth in 2002 is regressed on alternative measures of income uncertainty. In addition to the usual...

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Extending the Case for a Beneficial Brain Drain

Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 231 (2011) 4, pp. 466-478

Summary Several destination countries still adopt general immigration policies, and are characterized by lower returns to education than the countries of origin of the migrants. These two stylized facts challenge the literature on the beneficial brain drain which demonstrates that migration can...

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Do Smart Growth Strategies Have a Role in Curbing Vehicle Miles Traveled? A Further Assessment Using Household Level Survey Data

Chattopadhyay, Sudip; Taylor, Emily - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 12 (2012) 1

Abstract This paper draws on McFadden’s location choice theory and incorporates households’ residential choice decisions as a hierarchical process in a structural travel demand model. The paper argues that such an approach can effectively tackle the problems of self-selection and...

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Partizipative touristische Inwertsetzung des immateriellen Kulturerbes

Taufer, Barbara; Camp, Marc-Antoine; Emmenegger, Claudia; … - In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft 4 (2012) 2, pp. 231-236

was held and a guidebook about the realization/development of tourism products was published. The participation of all …

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Africa, Go Green! A New Initiative for the Continent’s Youth to Become Leaders in the Global Environment Needs to Combine Activism with Knowledge, Research and Policy

Benedikter, Roland; Tsedze, William Mensa; … - In: New Global Studies 14 (2020) 1, pp. 83-93

Abstract A growing number of scholars assert that the second half of the century will be the African century. But the question is how exactly, and with which perspectives. This is the challenge of the African youth. Africa’s young are eagerly searching for their place in globalization. The...

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Changing Civic Spaces in the Light of Authoritarian Elements of Politics and the Covid Crisis – The Case of Austria

Simsa, Ruth - In: Nonprofit Policy Forum 13 (2022) 3, pp. 211-228

Abstract The paper analyzes changing civic spaces in Austrian civil society. Different levels of authoritarian politics in different phases of the last 8 years – the recent phase intertwined with the Covid-19 crisis – are analysed in terms of their impact on civil society frameworks....

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Voice-In, Voice-Out: Constituent Participation and Nonprofit Advocacy

Guo, Chao; Saxton, Gregory D. - In: Nonprofit Policy Forum 1 (2010) 1

How do participatory constituent practices affect the scope and intensity of nonprofit advocacy? In this study, we examine this question through survey data from a random sample of charitable nonprofit organizations in Arizona in 2007. Our findings show that the scope and intensity of nonprofit...

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Partizipation und Belastung von Unternehmensberatern - Empirische Befunde zu den Risiken und Nebenwirkungen „wissensintensiver“ Arbeit / Participation and strain of consultants – e...

Striewe, Frank; Schwering, Markus G. - In: Arbeit 20 (2011) 2, pp. 75-93

with a high degree of participation. In this article the correlation between participation and strain has been empirical …

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Innovationsorientierte Mitarbeiterpartizipation in KMU-Netzwerken: Einflussvariablen und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten / Innovation-oriented employee's participation in SME- networks: f...

Jung, Rüdiger H.; Reifferscheid, Georg - In: Arbeit 21 (2012) 2-3, pp. 218-230

Abstract Participation of employees can be seen as a key factor for the innovation capacity of small and medium … factors of self-organized and innovation-oriented employee's participation. It suggests causalities between them and pleads … outline of a development-oriented framework of reference for an affirmative encouragement of participation in innovation …

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Mitarbeiterbefragungen als Instrument der Überwindung von Innovationsbarrieren der Partizipation? Erfahrungen eines Low-Tech-Fertigers / Employee surveys as an instrument to surmon...

Kranz, Olaf - In: Arbeit 22 (2013) 2, pp. 105-118

Abstract The literature regarding the relation between innovation and participation usually neglects the fact that the … involvement of employees in innovation processes constitutes in itself an innovation. Participation as innovation encounters some … specific barriers that cannot be overcome by participation. Prior to this problem and using a case study of a low-tech producer …

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