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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"1991-2008"”.
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"Das Klopfen an den Toren Europas": Undokumentierte Migration und Grenzkontrollpolitik in Südspanien (1991-2008)
Auf der Grundlage von Interviews sowie einer Analyse von diversen statistischen Quellen wie etwa Aufgriffs- und Bestandsdaten wird in der vorliegenden Dissertationsschrift die Wechselwirkung von undokumentierten Migrationsprozessen und (restriktiven) Maßnahmen der Grenzkontrollpolitik am Beispiel …
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Hydrocarbons and Russian foreign policy in the post-communist era (1991-2008): A case study.
… affect of hydrocarbons on foreign policy from 1991-2008 is offered. There is also a brief focus on the role of Gazprom in Russian foreign policy. It is found that hydrocarbons affected Russian foreign policy through the impact they had on the state's ability to control the domestic political …
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An investigation of foreign trade policy and its impact on economic growth: the case of Kazakhstan (1991 - 2008).
With the economic shift of Kazakhstan in 1991 from a centrally planned economy to a democratically independent republic, the country has seen its volume of external trade increase on a global basis. Consequently, Kazakhstan is now engaged in international commercial activities with more than one …
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Συχνότητα άσθματος και αλλεργίας σε παιδιά σχολικής ηλικίας : συγχρονική επιδημιολογική μελέτη στην πόλη της Πάτρας
… καταγράφηκε σε τρεις αποτυπώσεις στο διάστημα 1991-2003. Σκοπός: Διερευνήθηκε ο επιπολασμός του συριγμού/άσθματος, της ρινοεπιπεφυκίτιδας και του εκζέματος στο ίδιο αστικό περιβάλλον το 2008. Μέθοδος: Χρησιμοποιώντας πανομοιότυπη μεθοδολογία με τις προηγούμενες συγχρονικές αποτυπώσεις, …
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Laggard strategy: why a firm is sometimes better off lagging the technology frontier
… from the flat panel display industry for the 1991-2008 period, I empirically corroborate the hypothesis. This dissertation provides a more complete picture than the extant literature of a technological laggard's behavior by combining the firm capabilities research with competitive dynamics …
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The impact on knowledge spillovers on MNE ownership modes and sub-national locations: Evidence from India
… dataset of 1624 Indian manufacturing firms (1991-2008) with 5203 firm-year observations. The model estimation is carried out in STATA 13.0 in two stages; firstly, by using semi-parametric (Levinsohn-Petrin) method to derive the dependent variable (TFP of domestic firms); and secondly, by …
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An analysis of the presentation of Namibian history in the Namibian secondary school history textbooks
… prescribed for use in schools for the period 1991 – 2008. Altogether eleven textbooks were studied. The study sought to establish the relevance of the textbooks in how far they promote reconciliation, inclusiveness and respect for diverse views in terms of their pedagogy and the way they …
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Intergenerational and Occupational Mobility
… Household Panel Survey to examine the UK over 1991-2008. The findings suggest that most of the factors listed above have important roles. The period is characterised by pronounced movements in occupational premia and important roles for occupational mobility and assortative matching.
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On Immigration, Geographic and Labour Market Mobility
… British labour market entrants over the period 1991-2008, with an emphasis on the role of education. Given the absence of an appropriate index for mobility in the data, I compute a continuous measure of distance that is then matched to the individual information. Results suggest that having a …
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Essays on international corporate cash holdings
… is almost systemic across sample countries over 1991-2008, with France exhibiting a modest rise and Japan a substantial decline. However, the driving forces underlying the cash pattern are not uniform across countries. While the evolution in firm characteristics necessitated elevated cash …
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Body composition measurement in African and Caribbean children and its relationship with morbidity
… the Health Survey for England data archives, 1991-2008. The centile curves for the anthropometric measures revealed gender and age-related patterns which compared closely to equivalent charts for Caucasian children. Finally in the fourth study, percentile charts and tables for waist …
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Immediate and extended intersubjectivity : synchronic and diachronic interplay among evidentiality, factuality and other domains
… 2011; Langacker 1985, 1987, 1990a, 1990b, 2006, 2008), factualization occurs both textually and diachronically, the former developing throughout an on-going discourse, the latter as the semasiological reanalysis of an epistemic construction. Drawing on Langacker’s (1991, 2008, 2009) notion of the …