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Competition, Time Horizon and Corporate Social Performance

Graafland, Johan; Smid, H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

Abstract: This paper develops and tests a conceptual framework on the relationships between competition, time horizon and corporate social performance (CSP). We hypothesize that more intense competition discourages CSP by lowering the time horizon of companies. We test the hypothesis on a sample...

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The Diffusion of Mobile Telecommunications Services in the European Union

Gruber, H.; Verboven, F.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

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Trust, Social Capital and Economic Development

Francois, P.; Zabojnik, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

Many argue that elements of a society s norms, culture or social capital are central to understanding its development.However, these notions have been difficult to capture in economic models.Here we argue that trustworthiness is the economically relevant component of a society s culture and...

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Culture and Development : An Analytical Framework

Francois, P.; Zabojnik, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

This paper develops a framework which analyzes how a population's culture affects the decisions of rational profit maximizing firms, while simultaneously exploring how the actions of these firms in turn affect the population's culture.By endogenizing culture as well as the more usual economic...

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Does work experience help to become a medical specialist?

van Ours, Jan; van den Berg, G.; Holm, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

van Ours, Jan; Veenman, J.M.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

Since the mid-1960's the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam.Immigrants have a weak labor market position, which is related to their educational level and language...

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Part-Time Work, School Success and School Leaving

van soest, arthur; Dustmann, C.; Rajah, N. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

CJEL Classifications: 35; I20; J24;

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Organizing Education by Drawing on Organizational Studies

Romme, A.G.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

-oriented research approach is used in order to develop grounded design principles for organizing education.By drawing on the literature … about organizational design and learning, several preliminary design ideas for organizing undergraduate education are … thesis projects.The design principles grounded in these two cases are, in sum: designing education as an authentic …

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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins

Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg; Jacobs, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

optimal level of education subsidies along with the optimal progressive schedule of the labor income tax and optimal capital … income taxes.Subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation, while taxes on skilled labor help to … redistribute income towards the less able.We thus provide a rationale for the widely observed presence of education subsidies …

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The missing link in budget models of nonprofit institutions : Two practical Dutch applications

Verheyen, P.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1995

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