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Gender Research and Technology Development: introduction to the main topics

Krings, Bettina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

Since the UN World Conference on Women in 1995 the discussion on gender has been extremely controverse. This issue of … the Journal on Technology Assessment (from ITAS) presents and discuss the topic of gender research, and the relation …. UN-Weltfrauenkonferenz in Peking 1995 wurde der Begriff gender extrem kontrovers diskutiert. Die Zeitschrift für …

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Job promotion in mid-career: gender, recession and ‘crowding’

Addison, John; Ozturk, Orgul; Wang, Si - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 indicate that between 1996 and 2010 females on average lost some of the promotion momentum they had achieved at the beginning of mid-career, although they outperformed males in this regard. For both genders economic downturn has...

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Do services reduce gender inequality in labor markets? The service sector, knnowledge-intensive services and the gender pay gap

Dueñas, Diego; Iglesias, Carlos; Llorente, Raquel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

important factors that can improve employment opportunities for women, reducing labor by gender differences. The objective of … ICTs such as Knowledge Intensive Services (KIS) are changing some of the basics of labor gender differences. To do it: a …

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Reassessing the Trends in the Relative Supply of College-Equivalent Workers in the U.S.: A Selection-Correction Approach

Elitas, Zeynep; Ercan, Hakan; Tumen, Semih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Among better-educated employed men, the fraction of full-time full-year (FTFY) workers is quite high and stable -- around 90 percent -- over time in the U.S. Among those with lower education levels, however, this fraction is much lower and considerably more volatile, moving within the range of...

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Economic liberalization, gender wage inequality and welfare – a theoretical analysis

Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

sector to examine the effects of economic liberalization policies on gender based wage inequality. It is assumed that there … indicate that tariff cut may reduce gender wage inequality, but may have detrimental effects on welfare; while foreign capital … the provision of education and health have favourable effects on gender wage inequality but may be welfare deteriorating …

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Do Public Sector Contracts And Policy Towards Small Firms Matter?: Evidence From Women Business Enterprises

Cadogan, Godfrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

). Using hedonic sales and employment indices we find that 2% of firm sales is lost to negative gender externality. We show …

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Проблема взаимодействия интересов при внедрении инноваций на региональном уровне

Kaluzhsky, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

Article about the situation and the problems existing in the field of innovative development of Russian industry in the 1992-1998. The author analyzes the state innovation policy in Russia, highlights the major problems of implementation of industrial innovation, and offers solutions.

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Economic crisis and the firms´ innovation process

Nunes, Sérgio; Lopes, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The economic and financial crisis has brought firms, territories and countries before a set of restrictions to a greater or lesser extent, function as the conditioners of economic activity for several agents, also affecting their activities associated with the development of its innovation...

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Firm heterogeneity in TFP, sectoral innovation and geography. Evidence from Italy

Aiello, Francesco; Pupo, Valeria; Ricotta, Fernanda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Sectoral and territorial specificities affect the firm’s capabilities of being productive. While there is a wide consensus on this, a quantitative measure of the these effects has been lacking. To this end, we combine a dataset of Italian firms with some meso regional and sectoral variables...

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ICTs and lags in technical efficiency gains. A stochastic frontier approach over a panel of Italian manufacturing firms

Castiglione, Concetta; Infante, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper analyses the relationship between investment in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Technical Efficiency (TE). It uses a panel dataset of Italian manufacturing firms during the period 1995-2003. In contrast to much of the existing literature which focuses on the...

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