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India Shining and Bharat Drowning : Comparing Two Indian States to the Worldwide Distribution in Mathematics Achievement
Das, Jishnu; Zajonc, Tristan - 2012
This paper uses student answers to publicly released questions from an international testing agency together with statistical methods from Item Response Theory to place secondary students from two Indian states -Orissa and Rajasthan -on a worldwide distribution of mathematics achievement. These...
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Self vs. other raters' assessment of emotional intelligence in private and public hospitals : a comparative study
Sweis, Rateb J.; Aldaod, Sawsan; AlSayyed, Niveen M.; … - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 12 (2022) 4, pp. 1-19
This study aims to investigate the levels of emotional intelligence for managers in public and private hospitals in … Jordan for the purpose of identifying the relative practice of emotional intelligence dimensions by managers in each sector …. The research will also look into the differences (gaps) in self- and other-assessed emotional intelligence for managers in …
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Mobility and opportunity : Black business owners and inventors cross the US-Canada borders
Arenson, Adam - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 2, pp. 63-83
In the decades after the Civil War and before the Great Migration, a set of remarkable Black business leaders and inventors emerged, including Elijah McCoy, noted inventor and innovator in engine lubrication; John Sullivan Deas, the first person canning salmon near Vancouver; Rev. Charles...
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Race, Immigration, and the U.S. Labor Market : Contrasting the Outcomes of Foreign Born and Native Blacks
De Walque, Damien - 2012
It is generally expected that immigrants do not fare as well as the native-born in the U.S. labor market. The literature also documents that Blacks experience lower labor market outcomes than Whites. This paper innovates by studying the interaction between race and immigration. The study...
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Contributions of Black entrepreneurs to the US whaling industry, abolition, and other civil rights
Mock, Valerie Ellen - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 2, pp. 40-62
The history of Black entrepreneurs from colonial times through most of the nineteenth century in the US whaling industry provides an excellent opportunity for insights into how free Blacks and those who freed themselves became entrepreneurs and how they influenced the abolition movement and...
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U.S. long-term earnings outcomes by sex, race, ethnicity, and place of birth
McKinney, Kevin L.; Abowd, John M.; Janicki, Hubert P. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1879-1945
This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings …
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Do ADR firms have different dividend policies than U.S. firms? : a comparative study
Tong, Shenghui; Murtagh, James; Proctor, Richard - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-10
This paper examines and compares the dividend policies of American depository receipt (ADR) firms and U.S. firms and identifies the factors that determine these policies for both types of companies. We find that ADR firms have higher dividend yields than U.S. firms, while U.S. firms have higher...
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Dose birthweight matter to quality of life? : a comparison between Japan, the U.S., and India
Yamane, Chisako; Tsutsui, Yoshirō - In: Health economics review 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-25
Background: Birthweight is a widely accepted indicator of infant health and has signifcant and lasting associations. Several studies have found that low and high birthweight have signifcant negative associations with adult health. A new study in the feld of social sciences has established that...
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Does Okun's law suffer from COVID-19? : evidence from Europe and the US
Russnak, Jan; Stadtmann, Georg; Zimmermann, Lilli - In: Economics and Business Letters : EBL 12 (2023) 2, pp. 165-171
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A tale of two economies : diachronic comparative analysis of diverging paths of growth and inequality in the United States and the United Kingdom
Karountzos, Panagiotis; Giannakopoulos, Nikolaos T.; … - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 10, pp. 1-25
This study investigates the correlation between the Gini index and gross domestic product (GDP) in two of the world’s largest capitalist economies: the United States and the United Kingdom. Utilizing econometric methods, including stationarity tests and linear regression, this research work...
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