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HDR 2009 - Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international … capabilities is extraordinarily unequal, and that this is a major driver for movement of people. Migration can expand their choices … by policy distortions, is a theme of the report. The report investigates migration in the context of demographic changes …
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The effects of mobility on neighbourhood social ties
Knies, Gundi - 2009
This research examines the strength of people's ties with close neighbours and the sensitivity thereof to changes in residential mobility, access to modes of public and private transport, and changes in the availability of modern communications technologies using the German Socio-economic Panel...
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Neuroökonomie und Neuromarketing: Neurale Korrelate strategischer Entscheidungen
Hain, Cornelia; Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, Marco; Kenning, Peter - 2007
Die Bedeutung von Emotionen und Affekten bei ökonomischen Entscheidungen wird seit mehreren Jahren in der ökonomischen Literatur diskutiert (z. B. Rabin, 1998). Eine Erklärung der empirischen Evidenz in diesem Bereich, die über eine bloß phänomenologische Ebene hinausgeht, verlangt eine...
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The Effects of Mobility on Neighbourhood Social Ties
Knies, Gundi - 2009
This research examines the strength of people's ties with close neighbours and the sensitivity thereof to changes in residential mobility, access to modes of public and private transport, and changes in the availability of modern communications technologies using the German Socio-economic Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600819
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Between-Person Disparities in the Progression of Late-Life Well-Being
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...
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Statistical Problems and Solutions in Onomastic Research: Exemplified by a Comparison of Given Name Distributions in Germany throughout the 20th Century
Huschka, Denis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
The German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) offers the rare opportunity to look at patterns of given names amongst a representative sample of more than 50,000 people born since 1900. This article develops an exemplary picture of typical frequency distributions for given names and their...
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The role of participation in sustainable community development programmes in the extractives industries
Macdonald, Catherine - 2017
A major challenge for almost all extractives activity is that benefits accrue predominantly at the national level while disruptions are invariably highly localized close to the resource. Recently, extractives companies have intensified efforts to correct this imbalance. The aim of this paper is...
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The role of gender in the extractives industries
Macdonald, Catherine - 2017
In recognizing that women's participation and gender equity is a precondition for the achievement of acceptable development outcomes, extractives industry companies are increasingly making public commitments to integrating gender equality, inclusion, and women's economic empowerment into aspects...
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Female political representation in the aftermath of ethnic violence: A comparative analysis of Burundi and Rwanda
Guariso, Andrea; Ingelaere, Bert; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2017
We study the impact of electoral gender quotas in post-war Burundi and Rwanda on women's political representation. First, we look at descriptive representation by studying the number of female representatives and the prestige of their positions in the legislative and executive branches of...
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Perceived distributive justice and Leader-Member Exchange: An exploration among Dutch and Polish (agency) workers
Torka, Nicole; Goedegebure, Ivy - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 24 (2017) 1, pp. 100-123
We compare the distributive justice perceptions of agency workers and permanent staff concerning different aspects of HRM. Moreover, we investigate if the supervisor-subordinate relationship quality (Leader-Member Exchange, LMX) influences the relationship between the contract status and...
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