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both gratification variables and occupational qualification as factors that define social positions. This means, for example, that when occupational qualification shows a declining effect on income over [...] ns, only conditional first and second moments need to be correctly specified. That is, the underlying assumptions are that all possible pairs of εit2’s are bivariate normally distributed, each y∗it2 c [...] equations with the observable continuous outcome, that is, in the linear part of the model, are restricted to have mean zero. In the nonlinear part, that is, in the regression equations corresponding to
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sind drei vorgegeben: Taken all together, how would you say things are these days – would you say that you are very happy, pretty happy or not too happy? Im Eurobarometer Survey hingegen sind vier Ant
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bei der Steu- 2 „With respect to its impact on the incentive to invest, though, it is well-known that the statutory rate is a woefully inadequate measure.” (Slemrod 2004: 1176) 3 „Insgesamt fällt damit [...] definition of the corporate tax base is extremely complex… It is not feasible to present a measure that reflects all of this factors.” (Devereux/Griffith/Klemm 2002: 457) 5 Die erste große unternationale [...] 25 „The relative low effective corporate tax rate of German companies can be explained by the fact that a large number of companies (85%) do not pay corporate taxes. Their profits fall instead under the
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states that have joined since May 2004 but not yet introduced the euro. Since its introduction, the euro has acted as a constant daily reminder to the citizens of the participating countries that they live [...] and wealth. In addition to the particular characteristics that are unique to the different countries, there are differences within populations that influence attitudes toward the euro, and changes in individual [...] introduction. This idea is based on two assumptions: first, that individuals evaluate the euro positively because they use it every day, and second, that since individuals cannot change the situation, the cognitive
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das Unternehmen. „An organization that creates only one product or service is more dependent on its customers than an organization that hat a variety of outputs that are being disposed of in a variety
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Studies. The fact that the University of Flensburg is a university in a border region, that it offers a German- Danish double degree, that the program is fully taught in English and that the cost of living [...] cooperation with the Syddansk University or rather the double degree that is linked to this cooperation (41 percent) and the fact that the study program is in English (35 percent). The low costs of studying [...] program (age, sex, nationality) and its changes during the evaluation period, the kinds of degrees that the students have achieved before they started their studies in Flensburg, the languages they speak
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first one have the well-known double-problem that cross national analysis may miss relevant intervening variables due to unknown country specifics and that the full comparabability of the data is not always [...] evidence was not without critics. But the most recent overview of the literature came to the conclusion that from the 168 studies featuring this question, a solid majority of nearly three quarters confirmed [...] impact on life expectancy. Educational attainment had a positive impact. Per capita income, a variable that would support the absolute income hypotheses, was also positive associated with life expectancy, but
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1998), there has been little concerted activity to develop cases that are comparable among different research teams. We suggest that this is a consequence of a lack of a common definition for the term [...] initiatives did not easily fit with the interests of individual firms. We suggest that one of the reasons for the lack of “fit” is that the role and function of single firms in clusters has not been sufficiently [...] it is deeply rooted in strategic management research, the discipline that investigates competitive advantage of firms. We suggest that insights from both disciplines should be combined in order to provide
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studies have revealed that personality traits that are regarded as male and female are not treated equally by society but are usually hierarchically arranged, and that traits that have male connotations [...] This suggests that individuals consistently choose (work) situations that are compatible with their personality traits. Extroverted leaders thus tend to choose tasks or positions that enable them to live [...] claims that women are gener- ally less willing to take risks than men and that leaders are generally more willing to take risks than non-leaders. Economic studies proceed on the assumption that there is
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lectures. A clear factor in the success of lecture podcasts is that they are available with no cost involved. Another important factor is that the students can reuse and replay the recorded lecture. Podcasts [...] assumption that the use of podcasts will continue to increase in future (through "personal broadcasting"3), also in higher education. Personal broadcasting is "at the leading edge of a wave that will last [...] in general (in per cent) downloaded free of charge. This suggests that there is a powerful incentive to subscribe to podcasts, but that, due to lack of time for example, these are then not used, at least