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Business in genocide : understanding and avoiding complicity
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2016
better understand the complicity of business there is a need for a shift from diagnostic attention on how businesses are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452640
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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy
Naudé, Wim - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774302
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Is the scholarly field of entrepreneurship at its end?
Naudé, Wim - 2024
break in the disruptiveness of entrepreneurship and business papers occurred around 1999. These results should not be taken …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512260
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Up in STEM, down in business : changing college major decisions with the Great Recession
Liu, Shimeng; Sun, Weizeng; Winters, John V. - 2017
during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by … overall increase in the frequency of STEM majors but a decrease in the frequency of business majors during and after the Great … Recession. Second, the increase for STEM fields is spread across several detailed STEM fields, while the decrease in business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731970
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Teacher literacy and numeracy skills : international evidence from PIAAC and ALL
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Vermeulen, Stan; Wolf, Inge de - 2016
Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others in the bottom percentiles, while in some countries they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543658
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Sibling health, schooling and longer-term developmental outcomes
Ryan, Chris; Zhu, Anna - 2016
We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the detrimental, long-term developmental consequences of having an ill or disabled sibling. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we employ a Regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543661
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Human capital and earnings of female immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian female immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education (relative to native-born women), and income (relative to native-born women) than do U.S. female immigrants. A prominent explanation for this skill deficit of U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413352
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Work-related training and the new national minimum wage in Britain
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two "treatment groups" for estimating the impact of the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413732
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Economic aspects of human cloning and reprogenetics
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper analyses the economic issues associated with human cloning and new reproductive technologies. We analyze the incentives for human cloning and its implications for the long run distribution of skills and income. We analyse models of human cloning for different motives, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414017
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From farmers to merchants : a human capital interpretation of Jewish economic history
Botticini, Maristella; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 2002
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415389