Search Results - subject:"NORTH AMERICA"

Welfare state expenditures and the redistribution of well-being : children, elders, and others in comparative perspective

Garfinkel, Irwin; Rainwater, Lee; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2005

This paper describes the size, nature, and redistributive effects of welfare state expenditures in ten advanced industrialized nations and relates these differences across nations to disparities in the economic well-being of country populations as a whole and three (mutually exclusive and...

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Bootstrapping the LIS : statistical inference and patterns of inequality in the global north

Moran, Timothy Patrick - 2005 - Revised February, 2005

The problem of statistical inference has long been associated with quantitative inequality research. Within the last five years, however, significant developments have occurred in both the theory and practice of conducting formal statistical inference with common measures of inequality such as...

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Results information systems discipline

Schauer, Carola - 2005

This report presents the results of a partly explorative and partly hypotheses based interview study with eight renowned Information Systems researchers. The study was performed with the objective to re-construct the development and status of the discipline taking advantage of the diverse...

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Research objectives and method

Schauer, Carola - 2005

As part of a research project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) a series of expert interviews was performed with renowned researchers in the fields of Information Systems (IS) and Wirtschaftsinformatik - the corresponding IS field in German speaking countries. The interviewees...

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Globalisation, regionalisation & the Americas : the free trade area of the Americas fuelling the 'race to the bottom'? : Alexander Macleod

MacLeod, Alexander (contributor) - 2005

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Finance and the environment in North America : the state of play on the integration of environmental issues into financial research ; executive summary

McGeachie, Sue (contributor); Kiernan, Matthew (contributor) - 2005

Finance and the Environment in North America: The state of play on the integration of environmental issues into … environment in North America [electronic resource] : the state of play on the integration of environmental issues into ﬁnancial …. Investment analysis--North America. 3. Investment advisors--North America--Attitudes. 4. Industries--Environmental aspects--North …

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Historical financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises

Cull, Robert J.; Davis, Lance Edwin; Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; … - 2005

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Security and Cross-Border Capital Movements in North America

Sinha, Tapen; Condon, Bradly J. - 2005

The need to stem the international capital flows associated with terrorist financing can increase the transaction costs for legitimate capital flows in the NAFTA region. This article focuses on the cross-border movement of capital in the NAFTA countries, which is at once the lifeblood of...

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Poverty and Place in North America

Bane, Mary Jo; Zenteno, René M. - 2005

This paper provides an overview of poverty in North America: in Mexico, the United States and Canada. It begins with an …

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Tests of Microeconomic Foundations of a North American Common Currency Area

Swofford, James L. - 2005

The movement of some members of the European Union towards a common currency area is likely to spark interest in other possible common currency areas. One such area of interest is a North American common currency area. In this paper some results from tests of microeconomic foundations of a North...

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