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What You Do, Not Who You Work For – a comparison of the occupational industry structures of the United States, Canada and Sweden
King, Karen; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
relationships among occupations across industries can further illuminate national and regional economic performance. This … descriptive research enhances the understanding of the relationships among industries and occupations. These relationships are …. We uncovered significant differences in occupation mix between North American and Swedish industries. While the United …
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Gender Stereotyping in Sports
Marcén, Miriam - 2020
This paper contributes to the literature of gender differences in academic attainment by putting together several sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport choices of boys and girls during high school. Using data...
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The headmaster ritual : the importance of management of school outcomes
Böhlmark, Anders; Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2012
determine which principal characteristics that form the basis for successful school management. We also find a somewhat mixed … picture on what management style characterizes a successful principal. We further show that the scope for principal discretion …. -- Principals ; School Management …
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Producers Export Company: The Beginnings Of Cooperative Grain Exporting
Reynolds, Bruce - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1980
merchandising program. PEC's nationwide membership had different export needs and financial resources which imposed constraints on …
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Productivity Dynamics in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidences from Plant-level Panel Data
Kamiike, Atsuko; Sato, Takahiro; Aggarwal, Aradhna - eSocialSciences - 2011
the unit-level panel database drawn from the Annual Survey of Industries. The selected regions differ in the degree and … from four broad factors: improvement in incumbents? productivity (within effect), reallocation of resources from less …
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Determinants of pharmaceutical innovation: The role of technological opportunities revisited
Rake, Bastian - 2012
Recent empirical contributions emphasize the importance of (potential) market size for the development of new pharmaceuticals. At the same time many scholars point out the importance of of scientific advances for the industry's R&D activities. Against this background I analyze the relationship...
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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
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The economic and demographic transition, mortality, and comparative development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
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Human capital and the quantity-quality trade-off during the demographic transition: New evidence from Ireland
Fernihough, Alan - 2011
In this article I measure the child quantity-quality relationship in 1911 Ireland. My analysis shows that sibship size had a strong impact on the probability of school enrollment in both Belfast and Dublin. However, the magnitude of the relationship varied considerably across different cohorts,...
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Die Interne Rendite der Gesetzlichen Pflegeversicherung
Raffelhüschen, Bernd; Häcker, Jasmin - 2005
Die Einführung eines jeden auf dem Umlageverfahren basierenden Systems verursacht – bei unterstellter Alterung der Bevölkerung – eine intergenerative Umverteilung zu Gunsten der ersten Generationen und zu Lasten jüngerer und nachwachsender Generationen. Am Beispiel der Einführung der...
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