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Leaving Home and Entering Service: The Age of Apprenticeship in Early Modern London
Wallis, Patrick; Webb, Cliff; Minns, Chris - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
Leaving home and entering service was a key transition in early modern England. This paper presents evidence on the age of apprenticeship in London. Using a new sample of 22,156 apprentices bound between 1575 and 1810, we find that apprentices became younger (from 17.4 to 14.7 years) and more...
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At the origins of increased productivity growth in services Productivity, social savings and the consumer surplus of the film industry, 1900-1938
Bakker, Gerben - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
This paper estimates and compares the benefits cinema technology generated to society in Britain, France and the US between 1900 and 1938. It is shown how cinema industrialised live entertainment, by standardisation, automation and making it tradable. The economic impact is measured in three...
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Die Europäische Dienstleistungsrichtlinie Zielsetzung und Stand der Umsetzung
Klein, Tanja; Icks, Annette; Wallau, Frank - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung <Bonn> - 2009
[...]Das vorliegende Working Paper beschreibt zunächst die Zielsetzung der Richtlinieund ihre Entstehungsgeschichte. Anschließend wird auf die grundlegendenBestandteile der EU-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie eingegangen, den einheitlichenAnsprechpartner und die angestrebte verstärkte Einführung...
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Integration of innovative users as source of service innovations
Skiba, Florian; Herstatt, Cornelius - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2008
In this study we research user integration in the German service industry. Goal is to explorethe industrial practice with regard to four dimensions of user integration, i.e., why, whom,how, and how successful the service industry integrates to find novel service ideas. Data iscollected from a...
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PATTERNS OF INNOVATION AND PROTECTION ACTIVITIESWITHIN SERVICE COMPANIES -RESULTS FROM A GERMAN STUDY ON SERVICE-INTENSIVECOMPANIES
Hipp, Christiane; Herstatt, Cornelius - Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement … - 2006
There is an increasing number of researchers conducting empirical and theoretical investigations tobetter understand innovation and protection activities of service companies. In fact, previous analysesreveal that the protection topic is difficult to study, particularly when using traditional...
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Participation and Sustainability in Social Projects: The Experience of the Local Development Program (PRODEL) in Nicaragua
Stein, Alfredo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
co-management of small infrastructure and urban improvement projects and by lending small loans for housing improvement …
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Building Cities: Neighbourhood Upgrading and Urban Quality of Life Title: Construir ciudades: Mejoramiento de barrios y calidad de vida urbana
Alcocer, María Eugenia González; Cohen, Michael; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Building Cities reviews the experiences of the Latin American and Caribbean region in the design and implementation of neighbourhood upgrading programmes. The volume has a particular focus on the lessons learned by specialists of the Inter-American Development Bank and their technical and...
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Housing Finance in Brazil: Institutional Improvements and Recent Developments
Martins, Bruno; Lundberg, Eduardo; Takeda, Tony - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Despite a recent expansion in housing finance, Brazil still faces a severe housing shortage, especially among lower …-income people, and it is important to examine the development, limitations and prospects of the country's housing finance market … contractual obligations or is merely an effect of the higher level of housing loans imposed by the government on financial …
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Gender Differentials in Judicial Proceedings: Field Evidence from Housing-Related Cases in Uruguay
Gandelman, Eduardo; Gandelman, Néstor; Rothschild, Julie - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
Using micro data on judicial proceedings in Uruguay, this paper presents evidence that female defendants receive more favorable treatment in courts than male defendants. This is due to longer foreclosure proceedings and higher probabilities of being granted extensions in evictions and...
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Argentina's Housing Market in the 2000s
Cristini, Marcela; Moya, Ramiro; Bermúdez, Guillermo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
In the last three decades, the supply of housing in Argentina has not kept pace with demand. This study analyzes the … main drivers of Argentina's housing market and relates them to the macroeconomic environment in order to advance a policy … agenda for housing policy reform. The demand for housing was calculated and tenure choice was analyzed. Structural …
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