Search results for "VARIETY"
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Working in a boom-town: Female perspectives on gold-mining in Burkina Faso
2009
Abstract In Burkina Faso, informal mining camps attract girls and women from rural areas because they offer a variety of income generating activities and access to urban consumer goods. Moreover, migration to the mines also allows for a different life-style and greater personal freedom. On the other hand, by going to the mining camps, girls and women risk acquiring a bad reputation in their communities because they are suspected of having illicit sexual relationships. In fact, relationships with gold miners and the material benefits connected with them are among the lures of the gold mines. Thus, from a female perspective migration to the gold mines is fraught with ambivalence, which is exp…
Government policies to support entrepreneurship
2012
This paper summarizes the articles of the Special Issue on Government Policies to Support Entrepreneurship. All of them went through double-blind reviews and revisions. These articles contribute to various perspectives of government policies and entrepreneurship in different countries. The papers in this Special Issue cover a variety of topics encompassed within the area of government policies and entrepreneurship.
El reotismo nobiliario en la agricultura valenciana del siglo XIX
2000
RESUMENEl artículo discute los caracteres sociales de la nobleza terrateniente y el papel de la propiedad «rentista» en el desarrollo agrario valenciano del siglo XIX. En la primera parte se estudia la nobleza propietaria a mediados del siglo XIX y se cuestiona la tesis de su continuidad respecto a los antiguos señores feudales. En la segunda se destaca, a través del estudio de un patrimonio de la nobleza sin título, que la gestión era, a la vez, «rentista» y «empresarial», y se intenta explicar la lógica de este comportamiento.
Strategic product variety and quality choice
2019
Abstract We examine the linkages between strategic product assortment, quality choice, and pricing by multi-product firms as well as the welfare effects from those linkages. The analysis shows that strategic effects can lead to relevant inefficiencies. Specifically, the analysis identifies effects which can induce insufficient or excessive product quality relative to the socially optimal level of quality.
Competition with targeted product design: Price, variety, and welfare
2018
Abstract We consider the price and welfare effects of competition in targeted product design, in the context of the Salop circle model. Changes in product design lead to demand rotations that set the stage for our analysis. With an exogenous number of firms, we show that the degree of targeted product design tends to increase with the number of firms. Moreover, under reasonable conditions, price-increasing competition takes place, for intermediate levels of the number of firms. This effect is associated with the possibility of lower consumer welfare. With endogenous firm entry, an interesting insight from our analysis is that in some situations an increase in market size or a technological …
Cooperatives and Social Capital : A Theoretically-Grounded Approach
2019
Social capital is widely regarded as a collective resource with positive effects on the economic performance of cooperatives. This conclusion is based on the implicit assumption that social interactions between cooperative members would inexorably lead to the development of networks, norms and trust. This paper challenges the validity of this assumption. Conceptualizing social capital as a resource of the individual, it is argued that the interactions between cooperative members may lead to the establishment of a variety of complex social ties, some of which can negatively affect the economic performance of the organization. To illustrate this argument, the paper presents an exploratory cas…
Multi-product firms and product variety
2008
The goal of this paper is to study the role of multi-product firms in the market provision of product variety. The analysis is conducted using the spokes model of non-localized competition proposed by Chen and Riordan (2007). Firstly, we show that multi-product firms are at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis single-product firms and can only emerge if economies of scope are sufficiently strong. Secondly, under duopoly product variety may be higher or lower with respect to both the first best and the monopolistically competitive equilibrium. However, within a relevant range of parameter values duopolists drastically restrict their product range in order to relax price competition, and as a…
Conclusion: Setting Up an Agenda for Life-Course Perspective in International Migration
2018
Each chapter in this book documents ways in which migration is intertwined with life pathways, and tells the story on how migration shapes and is shaped by work, family, and educational pathways. Examples come from a variety of migration flows (Poles in Ireland; Romanians and Moroccans in Italy; Spanish, Portuguese, and Italians in Switzerland), destinations (Spain, Italy, Ireland, Germany), countries of origin (Romania, Morocco, Poland, Spain, etc.), and sources for return migration and/or remigration (Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland).
Evaluación de programas educativos en instituciones musicales El caso Adoptar un Músico
2017
Orquestas, Auditorios y Espacios Escénicos (las instituciones musicales más representativas de la expresión pública de la música) vienen desarrollando desde hace años una amplia variedad de acciones educativas, con especial atención hacia el público joven, y con incidencia notable en colectivos muy numerosos. En ocasiones, estas acciones se configuran como programas educativos estables que generan espacios de experiencia y aprendizaje, tanto en la educación no formal como en la educación formal de carácter reglado. Este trabajo aborda la evaluación de uno de estos programas: Adoptar un Músico, de la Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España. El objetivo fundamental es identificar y analizar los …
O espanhol de Valença na classe de e / le. Contexto teórico e metodologia
2019
In the Community of Valencia we can observe a variety of Spanish with its own characteristics. The students of E/LE that study in this context observe linguistic characteristics that they had not previously perceived and that, in most cases, they want to incorporate into their Spanish. In this way, in the present work the inclusion of the concept of Spanish variety in E/LE class in American students who studied in Valencia is shown. This process has been carried out through activities that are introduced in the E/LE class. Finally, surveys were used with the aim of seeing the acquisition of the characteristics of this variety.