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Why Are There So Few Women in Executive Positions? An Analysis of Gender Differences in the Life-Cycle of Executive Employment
Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
"Glass ceilings" and "sticky floors" are typical explanations for the low representation of women in top executive positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of executive employment, which allows for a full...
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Income growth and happiness: reassessment of the Easterlin Paradox
Beja, Edsel - In: International Review of Economics 61 (2014) 4, pp. 329-346
The paper presents evidence of a positive but very small long-run relationship between income growth and happiness. Such finding is usually presented as a refutation of the Easterlin Paradox. The paper, however, argues that what the evidence actually reveals is that income growth has very little...
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The maximum debt-GDP ratio and endogenous growth in the Diamond overlapping generations model: Three overlapping generations are better than two
Roberts, Mark - Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics (CFCM), … - 2014
process for public debt [Braeuninger (2005)]. We show that if the debt dynamics are forward-looking, the maximum will instead …
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Simple Adaptive Strategies:From Regret-Matching to Uncoupled Dynamics
Hart, Sergiu; Mas-Colell, Andreu - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
This volume collects almost two decades of joint work of Sergiu Hart and Andreu Mas-Colell on game dynamics and … rational behavior that yields fully rational outcomes in the long run ¡ª generated a large body of work on the dynamics of … simple adaptive strategies. In particular, a natural condition on dynamics was identified: <i>uncoupledness</i>, whereby …
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Analysis economic indicators main crops in the South-West Oltenia
Necula, Diana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The agriculture is an important resource for South West Oltenia, with over 1 million hectares used for the cultivation of cereals (mainly maize and wheat), oil plants (especially sunflower), vegetables (tomatoes, cabbage, onions) and fruits (apples, watermelons, melons, grapes), potatoes, sugar...
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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing
Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2013
This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly …
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The Receipt of Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) Status Among Canadian Seniors – Incidence and Dynamics
Finnie, Ross; Gray, David; Zhang, Yan - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
amongst this population and the dynamics of entries and exits from this state. Our study is based on administrative data drawn … with age and is much lower for married than single individuals. In regards to the dynamics, a majority (but not all) of GIS …
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Labour Market Matters - February 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
incidence of receipt of GIS payment among those over 65 in Canada and the dynamics of entries and exits from this state. Income …
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Zukunftsangst! Fear of (and Hope for) the Future and Its Impact on Life Satisfaction
Piper, Alan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive or negative direction. This is a result found via five different methods, some of which control for personality and disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and...
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Distance, Time since Foreign Entry, and Knowledge Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment
Merlevede, Bruno; Purice, Victoria - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of foreign direct investment on the productivity of local firms. We decompose traditional country-wide spillover measures in different components according to both distance between foreign and domestic firms and timesince- foreign-entry. We find larger and...
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