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Industry Characteristics and Scale Economies as Sources of Intra-industry Trade

Farrell, Michael J. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 18 (1991) September, pp. 36-58

1982 US intra-industry trade (IIT) for 308 four-digit manufacturing products is related to industry characteristics in a cross-section regression study of the sources of two-way trade. Results indicate the empirical relevance of models which present IIT as the result of international external...

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Sustainability disclosure and reputation: a comparative study

Michelon, Giovanna - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2007

?This paper aims to explore the relationship between a company's sustainability disclosure and its reputation. The sample consists of 57 companies in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and a control group belonging to the Dow Jones Global Index (World1), matched on country, industry and...

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The development of indicators and core indicators for sustainable development: a state of the art review

Hens, Luc; Wit, Julie De - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 6 (2003) 4, pp. 436-459

shortlists for the USA, the UK and Sweden, and shows that six indicators (GDP, greenhouse gas emissions, crime rate, employment …

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Educational differences in all-cause mortality by marital status

Kohler, Iliana V.; Martikainen, Pekka; Smith, Kirsten P.; … - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 60, pp. 2011-2042

Using life table measures, we compare educational differentials in all-cause mortality at ages 40 to 70 in Bulgaria to those in Finland and the United States. Specifically, we assess whether the relationship between education and mortality is modified by marital status. Although high education...

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Trends in gender differences in accidents mortality

Waldron, Ingrid; McCloskey, Christopher; Earle, Inga - In: Demographic Research 13 (2005) 17, pp. 415-454

This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident-related behavior, using data for the US, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, 1950-98. As predicted by the Convergence Hypothesis, gender differences have decreased for amount of driving, motor...

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Child Poverty in English-Speaking Countries

Micklewright, John - 2003

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K. and Ireland. It is sometimes assumed that these countries stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty. The paper looks at the policies they have...

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Social Exclusion and Children: A European view for a US debate

Micklewright, John - 2002

exclusion of children are considered. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast …

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Modelling real GDP per capita in the USA: cointegration test

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg; Dolinskaya, Svetlana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A two-component model for the evolution of real GDP per capita in the USA is presented and tested. The first component … between the growth rate of real GDP per capita and the number of 9-year-olds in the USA is tested for cointegration. For … cointegrating relation. Econometrically, the tests for cointegration show that the deviations of real economic growth in the USA …

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Consumer Confidence and Elections

Hardouvelis, Gikas A; Thomakos, Dimitrios D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We investigate the behavior of consumer confidence around national elections in the EU-15 countries during 1985:1-2007:3. Consumer confidence increases before the date of elections and falls subsequently by almost the same amount. It is able to predict the strength of the performance of the...

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Equipping the child welfare workforce to improve the well-being of children

Barth, Richard P.; Lee, Bethany R.; Hodorowicz, Mary Theresa - In: Journal of Children's Services 12 (2017) 2-3, pp. 211-220

details of three innovative evidence-based projects – national models in the USA – concerned with promoting children’s well-being. …

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