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Determinantes del Emprendimiento Femenino en Europa
Calvo, Elena - 2021
El presente trabajo tiene como foco estudiar los determinantes del emprendimiento femenino en Europa. Concretamente, se aspira a cuantificar el efecto que una serie de variables demográficas, económicas y socioculturales tienen sobre la decisión de emprender de hombres y mujeres. Para ello,...
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Emprendimiento en entornos rurales: Evidencia con la Encuesta Europea sobre Condiciones Laborales
Belloc, Ignacio - 2022
This paper analyses the differences between earnings and market work time between the self-employed (entrepreneurs) and …
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Corporate equality and equity prices: Doing well while doing good?
Fu, Shihe; Shan, Liwei - 2009
Two competing hypotheses, value enhancing and value discounting, state that implementing socially responsible corporate policies can have positive or negative effects on firm value. This paper tests how a specific type of social responsibility–corporate equality–affects firm value. Corporate...
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The authoritarian bias for labours in India during COVID-19 and its distorting effect on labour relations
Gaurav, Jayant - 2020
This article is a humble attempt to cover the recent series of helter skelter actions taken by government agencies and the attitude of state executive machinery and Industrial houses towards the working population in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. It also tries to list down possible explanations...
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Formal Employment, Informal Employment and Income Differentials in Urban China
Guifu, Chen; Shigeyuki, Hamori - 2009
Oaxaca’s study (1973), along with the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) questionnaire (2004 and 2006 pooling … as the formal and informal male-female employment hourly income differential in urban China. The results indicate that …
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Group Reputation and the Endogenous Group Formation
Kim, Young Chul - 2009
We develop a dynamic model that can explain identity switching activities among a stereotyped population, such as passing and selective out-migration, based on the group reputation model developed in Kim and Loury (2008). The more talented members of the population, who gain more by separating...
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Lifetime Network Externality and the Dynamics of Group Inequality
Kim, Young Chul - 2009
The quality of one's social network significantly affects his economic success. Even after the skill acquisition period, the social network influences economic success through various routes such as mentoring, job searching, business connections, or information channeling. In this paper I...
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Raining stones? Female immigrants in the Spanish Labor Market
Antón, José-Ignacio; Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael; … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to analyze how female migrants fare in the labor market in Spain, a country that has …. In both cases, we find an economically significant gap, at least for migrants from non-developed countries. Regarding the … former, the larger unemployment rate of female migrants is not explained by observable characteristics. In the case of …
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Portuguese Women in Science and Technology (S&T): Some Gender Features Behind MSc. and PhD. Achievement
Chagas Lopes, Margarida - 2006
Portuguese Women in S&T - Abstract Most research based upon institutional data has been dealing with the situation of Portuguese women in Science and Technology as if it would be a homogeneous set. Quite the opposite, whilst women in science are performing increasingly better than men since the...
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Employer recruitment preferences and discrimination: a stated preference experiment
Mc Quaid, Ronald; Bergmann, Ariel - 2008
This paper presents a novel approach of applying stated preference methods in the field of labour economics. Differences in behaviour and labour market disadvantage are connected to the presence, and ages of children, the so-called „family gap‟. There are major difficulties in collecting...
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