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.Chapter four discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary educationon student incentives. Education provides a signal on … unobservable abilityfor employers and improves productivity after education. Selection setsbetter incentives in primary education … (Gesamtschulen) hat die erworbeneQualifikation aber eine höhere Signalwirkung. Deswegen haben die Schülerauch einen höheren Anreiz …
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The promise of theory and model development makes grounded theory an attractive methodology to follow. However, it has been argued that many researchers fall short and only provide a detailed description of the research area or simply a quantitative content analysis rather than an explanatory...
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A collection of eighteen articles have been purposely chosen to demonstrate the development of the original and significant contributions of my research over the period 1990 to 2008. Despite the relatively large number of articles, which cover a range of related issues, there is a surprisingly...
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The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of nutritional policies on the behavior of firms, particularly in terms of food quality and prices, and to assess the potential impacts of such policies from a public health point of view. We determine how new products that are nutritionally...
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labor market participants in response to policy-induced incentives. …
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labour market in terms of the incentives that economic agents face. To fulfil its new role the following three reform …
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that were not best for the long term success of the company. Mortgage companies gave financial incentives to brokers for … company, gave financial incentives to employees based on short-term profits, which motivated management to perform cheaper and …-term success of their company. I have seen incentives for delivering a project on time influence project managers and developers to …
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The purpose of this study was to determine the incentives of companies in either sponsoring or not sponsoring … professional sports teams. The review of literature regarding the identification of incentives to sponsor professional sports teams … companies' incentives to either sponsor or not to sponsor professional sports teams. The data collected revealed that there was …
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We investigate the situation where a customer experiencing an inventory stockout at a retailer potentially leaves the firm's market. In classical inventory theory, a unit stockout penalty cost has been used as a surrogate to mimic the economic effect of such a departure; in this study, we...
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