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Immigration, unemployment and human-capital acquisition
Lumpe, Christian - 2008
The following dissertation is a collection of four stand-alone research papers. The focus of my research is on the interplay of immigration, native human-capital investment and the resulting consequences for the labour market outcome of natives and necessary implications for the immigration...
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Signaling and search in humanitarian giving: models of donor and organization behavior in the humanitarian space
Wardell, Clarence L. - 2009
At its core, this dissertation examines the role of information, particularly as it relates to proxies for quality, and how it affects both donor and organization decision processes in the humanitarian space. In Chapter 2 I consider the context of competition within the sub-sector of...
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For sale by owner: When to use a broker and how to price the house
Salant, Stephen W. - 1991
By using a broker, the owner of a house can speed up his search for buyers but must pay a percentage of the sale price as a commission. Nonstationarities inherent in the housing market may make it optimal to market a house “by-owner” at the outset and to retain a broker only if the house...
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Overcoming the Inherent Sources of Liability of Foreignness : Measuring and Compensating the Disadvantage of Being Foreign
Zimmermann, J?rg - 2008
The established theories on the performance of the foreign firm in host country markets raise a puzzle: on the one hand, foreign ventures may be more likely to possess certain advantages that could help them outperform local competitors. On the other hand, foreign ventures suffer a disadvantage...
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Innovationsdynamik in der zweiten industriellen Revolution - Die Basisinnovation Nanotechnologie
Stiller Olaf - 2006
Wie der Leser schnell erkennen wird, sind die grundlegenden entwicklungstheoretischen Einsichten dieser Arbeit keineswegs neu : Der Verfasser verdankt sie Joseph A. Schumpeter, Friedrich August von Hayek und Jochen R?pke. Das Individuum wird in diesem Buch in urliberaler Vorstellung als der...
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Pers?nlichkeitsentfaltung zu unternehmerischen Kompetenzen in Schule und Universit?t - eine bildungs?konomische Antwort auf theoretische Zielvorstellungen von Schumpeter
Creuznacher, Isabel C. - 2009
Models from basic principles of the Schumpeterian theory combined with basic principles of Personality and Learning research …
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Prescribed fire: the fundamental solution.
Saveland, Jim - 1998
The theory and practice that embodies "learning organizations" can be applied to developing and implementing effective … natural resource policy and management. A learning organization is a group of people who are continually enhancing their … capacity to create the results they want. At the heart of learning organizations is systems thinking. This paper applies the …
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
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Iterative Projection Methods for Structured Sparsity Regularization
Rosasco, Lorenzo; Verri, Alessandro; Santoro, Matteo; … - 2009
class of sparsity based regularization algorithms. More precisely, we study the minimization of learning functionals that … become popular in machine learning since they allow to enforce various kinds of sparsity properties in the solution … regularization (and several variants), multiple kernel learning and multi-task learning. Finally, some features of the proposed …
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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand
Department of Petroleum Engineering
The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during...
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