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in the Italian normative occurred between 1993 and 1995 that reserved a gender quota in party lists for municipal … gender specific preferences in the society, we find no evidence that the allocation of resources among different spending … categories is affected by the gender of politicians. Our results are consistent with the Median voter theorem. Alternatively …
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This note analyzes income differences between foreigners and natives in Germany. Using social survey data (ALLBUS) for 2012, I use Mincer style quantile regressions and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to estimate the size of the income differential. People not born in Germany, have an income lose...
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Economic inequality is rapidly increasing in the majority of countries. The wealth of the world is divided in two: almost half going to the richest one percent; the other half to the remaining 99 percent. The World Economic Forum has identified this as a major risk to human progress. Extreme...
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Practices of corporate boards are the focus of researchers in the last decade. The dynamics of external environment determined necessity of reforms in corporate governance. Institutional pressure and new requirements of stakeholders to practices of boards have changed traditions and evolution to...
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We present an experimental and simulated model of a multi-agent stock market driven by a double auction order matching …
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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This paper presents research on existing female leaders of co-operatives and their perceptions of differences between their leadership styles and that of men. It is an early exploration with a small empirical base. Women contemplating careers in co-ops need to see or read other female leaders in...
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Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This … paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic …, 1981 to 2008. A traditional cross-country analysis suggests that only the social dimension of globalization, the worldwide …
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The purpose of this study was to substantiate the consumption styles of adolescents as customer. The study was executed in Karachi, Pakistan by applying consumption style inventory scale. The data covered of 1,048 respondents who are young and educated mostly students, which belong to the...
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examines determinants of different labor force participation by gender. The empirical analysis is based on the World Values … support a gender gap with respect to accessibility to full time paid work, only young females, regardless their computer … more properly engaged in unpaid employment. The study also finds a gender gap in job search intensity. We also conclude …
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