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Diseguaglianza, conflitto sociale e sindacati in America
Lettieri, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
structurally distorted in the institutions and policies of American industrial relations. The fall of the ‘social contract’ is the …
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Assessing the Impact of Skilled Labour on Output Growth in South Africa : An ARDL Bound Testing Approach
Okoli, Tochukwu - 2018
investigates the extent to which skilled labour can contribute to output growth in South Africa in the long run. The theoretical … technological progress on labour and capital. Skilled labour was measured with three parameters of experience (learning … causality running from the measures of skilled labour to growth. The coefficient of the ECT was both significant and negative …
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Corruption and Armed Conflicts: Some Stirring Around in the Governance Soup
Andvig, Jens Christopher - 2008
The paper discusses the impact of corruption on the probability of violent conflict events and traces the shifts in the composition of corrupt transactions during and in the aftermath of violent conflicts in an informal way. So far there has been little interaction between empirical corruption...
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La gestión hoshin: Modelos, aplicaciones, características distintivas
Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2005
La gestión hoshin es una versión madura de la administración por objetivos (APO), desarrollada por el management japonés. A través de una aplicación generalizada del ciclo de la mejora continua, la organización despliega una serie de objetivos anuales, llamados hoshin, para producir el...
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El estudio de caso como metodología de investigación: Teoría, mecanismos causales, validación
Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2005
Este trabajo presenta el método del caso como herramienta de investigación en las ciencias sociales. Desde el diseño hasta la presentación de sus resultados, el método está estrechamente vinculado con la teoría. Una teoría es una respuesta a una pregunta del tipo por qué o cómo, y...
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Zur Ökonomik grundfinanzierter wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung
Postlep, Rolf-Dieter; Wagner, Gert G. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 217 (1998) 3, pp. 346-358
Mit Argumenten aus der "Theorie des Marktversagens" und der "Neuen Politischen Ökonomie" kann gezeigt werden, daß Universitäten und Forschungsinstitute spezielle "Öffentliche Güter" produzieren, die eine Grundfinanzierung durch den Staat unter Effizienzgesichtspunkten rechtfertigen....
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Should firms allow workers to choose their own wage?
Charness, Gary - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Economists typically predict that people are inherently selfish; however, experimental evidence suggests that this is often not the case. In particular, delegating a choice (such as a wage) to the performing party may imbue this party with a sense of responsibility, leading to improved outcomes...
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Improvements and Future Challenges in the Field of Genetically Sensitive Sample Designs
Spinath, Frank M. - 2008
Understanding the sources of individual differences beyond social and economic effects has become a research area of growing interest in psychology, sociology, and economics. A quantitative genetic research design provides the necessary tools for this type of analysis. For a state-of-the-art...
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Wie krank ist unser Wirtschaftssystem? Krisen als Krankheiten im ökonomischen Diskurs
Pühringer, Stephan; Egger, Judith - 2016
Dieser Beitrag zeigt auf Basis einer Diskurs- und Metaphernanalyse des öffentlichen Diskurses von ÖkonomInnen zur Finanzkrise, dass hier Krankheitsmetaphern eine zentrale Bedeutung zukommen. Die Metapher der Krankheit impliziert die Vorstellung eines gesunden Normalzustandes der Wirtschaft,...
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What economics education is missing: The real world
Pühringer, Stephan; Bäuerle, Lukas - 2018
The global financial crisis (GFC) led to increasing distrust in economic research and the economics profession, in the process of which the current state of economics and economic education in particular were heavily criticized. Against this background we conducted a study with undergraduate...
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