Search Results - subject:"Role Models"

Female labour supply and intergenerational preference formation: Evidence for Mexico

Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Velez-Grajales, Roberto - Centro de Estudios Económicos, Colegio de México - 2013

Using a national representative sample for Mexico, we analyse the effect of a husband having a working mother on the probability that he has a working wife. Our results show that labour force participation by a husband’s mother increases the probability of the labour force participation of his...

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Local Clusters of Entrepreneurs -neighborhood peer effects in entrepreneurship?

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P. - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

Entrepreneurial activity is significantly predicted by the presence of other entrepreneurs in the residential neighborhood. One plausible source of such spatial clustering is local peer effects, where individuals’ decisions to become entrepreneurs are influenced by entrepreneurial neighbors....

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The Potential for Integrating Community-Based Nutrition and Postpartum Family Planning: Review of Evidence and Experience in Low-Income Settings

Alvesson, Helle M.; Mulder-Sibanda, Menno - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

The objective of this review was to study where community-based family planning and nutrition programs have been integrated, how this has been accomplished, and what the results have been. Although family planning is a nontraditional intervention in community-based nutrition programs, it can...

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Young women in science and technology : the importance of choice

Dimitriadi, Angeliki - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 2 (2013), pp. 1-14

career choice, with little knowledge of available possibilities. What seems to be missing are good role models that could act … the 6th Framework Program. As this article will show, the promotion through the usage of new technologies, of role models … as a career choice due to limited information available and positive role models to encourage young girls in …

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Beyond participation? : leadership ideals of future managers from Central and East European countries

Lang, Rainhart; Szabo, Erna; Catana, Gheorghe Alexandru; … - In: Journal of East European management studies : JEEMS 18 (2013) 4, pp. 482-511

This article analyses the leadership expectations of students in their role of potential future managers, comparing leadership prototypes across countries from Central and Eastern Europe with a focus on participative leadership. The findings suggest a complex web of influences, with individual...

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Values and leadership expectations of future managers : theoretical basis and methodological approach of the GLOBE Student project

Cater, Tomaž; Lang, Rainhart; Szabo, Erna - In: Journal of East European management studies : JEEMS 18 (2013) 4, pp. 442-462

This article introduces the joint research project titled "GLOBE Student" with its focus on seven Central and Eastern European countries at its current stage. The project's overall aim is to investigate cultural ideals and practices as well as leadership prototypes of future managers, based on...

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