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Todo el mundo es país. Rapporto col proprio lavoro e percezione della discriminazione nella popolazione immigrata

Pietravalle, Lorenzo; Savioli, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Relevant incoming immigration flows to Italy are novel for a country that has been source of emigrants for a long time. Immigrants are often discriminated against in housing, education, health and work. The perceptive aspect (how much immigrants actually feel discriminated) reveals the inner...

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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country

Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...

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Labor Mobility and Racial Discrimination

Deschamps, Pierre; De Sousa, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper assesses the impact of labor mobility on racial discrimination. We present an equilibrium search model that reveals an inverted U-shaped relationship between labor mobility and race-based wage differentials. We explore this relationship empirically with an exogenous mobility shock on...

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Social Exclusion and Jobs Reservation in India

Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper argues that social exclusion robs people of their "confidence" and this loss adversely affects their capacity to function effectively. We may not be able to define confidence precisely but we know it when we have it and also when we lack it. In a “just” society, no group should...

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Incentive to discriminate? An experimental investigation of teacher incentives in India

Jain, Tarun; Narayan, Tulika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We address the challenge of designing performance-based incentive schemes for schoolteachers. When teachers specialize in different subjects in the presence of social prejudice, performance based pay which depends on the average of student performance can cause teachers to coordinate their...

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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The impact of University-Industry Cooperation in Ecuador

Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …

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Measures of Science & Technology in Ecuador

José Luis, Massón-Guerra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

One of the structural problems in Latin-American has been the lower innovative capacity and lower generation of economically exploitable knowledge. This phenomenon has been produced by the absence of government’s incentives and strategies in order to be competitive inside the Knowledge Based...

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Evidence from SMEs in Prishtina region, Kosovo

Govori, Arbiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … approach to entrepreneurship and innovation. In this paper we address the innovation strategies of SMEs engaged in the …

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Entrepreneurship Spillover and the determinants of Key Sectors for new business creation: An inter-sectorial approach

Massón-Guerra, José Luis; Vendrell-Ferrero, Ferran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge … entrepreneurship dissemination or entrepreneurship spillover among sectors. From an adaptation of the model of input-output matrix … (Leontief, 1936; Dietzenbacher and Los, 2002) we develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship …

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Exploring Greek innovation activities: the adoption of generalized linear models

Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this paper we examine the innovative performance of Greek firms in terms of the women participation in research and technological development. For this reason we rely on the final results of a research project on women in innovation, technology and science, based on 279 questionnaires...

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