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Value-based management education : the case of health care management course

Dimovski, Vlado; Peterlin, Judita; Grah, Barbara; … - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 5 (2019) 1, pp. 287-297

The paper presents educational and teaching change by discussing the results of our study of management education in … perceptions of role models, management and decision-making patterns. Decision-making in health care demands risk management …, crisis management, precision and good knowledge of personal abilities and values. Many of our health care students will after …

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The State of Research on Africa in Business and Management : Insights from a Systematic Review of Key International Journals

Kolk, Ans - 2018

Aiming at a better understanding of the extent to which Africa-focused research has helped develop context-bound, context-specific, and context-free knowledge, the authors present the findings from a literature review of journal articles with an African context. A systematic search resulted in...

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Everyday life in the segmented city

Perrone, Camilla (contributor) - 2011 - 1. ed.

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First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the basis of this portrait, we draw attention to the empirically most relevant groups of immigrants...

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Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in the Rich Countries

Corak, Miles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child...

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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between...

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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...

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Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)

Poggi, Ambra; Ramos, Xavier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Economic theory and empirical evidence clearly show that social exclusion dimensions are inter-related. Notwithstanding that, dimensions are usually assumed independent from one another in the economics literature. In this paper we explore the inter-dependency of social exclusion dimensions and...

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Giffen Behavior: Theory and Evidence

Jensen, Robert T.; Miller, Nolan H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper provides the first real-world evidence of Giffen behavior, i.e., upward sloping demand. Subsidizing the prices of dietary staples for extremely poor households in two provinces of China, we find strong evidence of Giffen behavior for rice in Hunan, and weaker evidence for wheat in...

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Survey on Child Labour Statistics

Reggiani, Tommaso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper aims to provide a review on key methodological issues regarding two major international statistical approaches, which characterize the statistics on Child Labour, especially in poor countries. In the first section, we summarises and analyse some key concepts about the international...

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