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Intercultural Training Requirements for Virtual Assignments:Results of an Explorative Empirical Study

Holtbrügge, Dirk; Schillo, Katrin - Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut <Nürnberg> / … - 2007

Virtual assignments are characterized by the spatial separation of private and business life.The virtual delegate lives and interacts in one culture, yet he or she works together mainlywith people from another culture. While the virtual assignee is physically located in theheadquarters, from an...

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Education, health and health-related behaviors: Evidence from higher education expansion

Bratti, Massimiliano; Cottini, Elena; Ghinetti, Paolo - 2022

This study throws light on the potential non-linear effects of education on individual health and health …-related behaviors, finding a strong role for higher education. Using an instrumental variables (IVs) strategy, which leverages changes … in within-province between-municipality college proximity across birth cohorts, we demonstrate that higher education …

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The long-run effects of the 1930s redlining maps on children

Aaronson, Daniel; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Hartley, Daniel; … - 2022

We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps by linking children in the full count 1940 Census to 1) the universe of IRS tax data in 1974 and 1979 and 2) the long form 2000 Census. We use two identification strategies to estimate the potential...

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Does education really cause domestic violence? Revisiting the Turkish data

Akyol, Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …

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Seven economic facts about the U.S. racial wealth gap

Broady, Kristen; Booth-Bell, Darlene; Griffin, Taylor - 2022

disparities in income, employment, homeownership, education, access to credit, and retirement savings - all factors that …

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Societal disruptions and child mental health: Evidence from ADHD diagnosis during the Covid-19 pandemic

Freedman, Seth; Marquardt, Kelli; Salcedo, Dario; … - 2023

We study how the societal disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted diagnosis of a prevalent childhood mental health condition, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Using both nationwide private health insurance claims and a single state's comprehensive electronic health records,...

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Migration and university education: An empirical (macro) link

Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …

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Rule-based monetary policy under central bank learning

Aoki, Kosuke; Nikolov, Kalin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The paper evaluates the performance of three popular monetary policy rules when the central bank is learning aboutthe parameter values of a simple New Keynesian model. The three policies are: (1) the optimal non-inertial rule; (2)the optimal history-dependent rule; (3) the optimal price-level...

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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...

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Race, social class, and bulimia nervosa

Goeree, Michelle S.; Ham, John C.; Iorio, Daniela - 2012

In this paper we explore a serious eating disorder, bulimia nervosa (BN), which afflicts a surprising number of girls in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data set on adolescent females evaluated regarding their...

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