Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Trade Reform, Managers, and Skill Intensity: Evidence from India

India underwent a significant structural transformation through trade liberalization and other reforms (domestic) in the 1990s because of a balance-of-payments crisis. I use this episode to identify the causal effect of a drop in tariffs on wage inequality, measured through managerial and nonmanagerial compensation, between 1990 and 2011. I find that a drop in input tariffs (and not output) significantly increases the share of managerial compensation. In other words, a decline in tariffs on intermediate inputs raised within-firm wage inequality. A 10% drop in tariffs increases the managerial compensation by 0.5%‒3.5%. Additionally, I find that this increase in the compensation for managers (or observed increase in wage inequality) can possibly be explained by the rise in skill intensity, but only for firms below halfway in the size distribution. On the other hand, I do not find any evidence of a demand shift from nonmanagers due to a drop in tariffs, leading to inconclusive evidence in favor of skill premium. Additional analysis reveals that it is also the drop in the supply of skilled labor, coupled with demand shifts (toward managerial workers), that led to the rise in the demand for skill for certain categories of workers.
The Assessment of Stress among the Male Nurses in Private Hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan

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Tribal affiliations, gender roles and their influence on work life balance practice : the case of the Kenyan telecommunications sector

7 LIST OF TABLES . 14 LIST OF FIGURES . 15 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS . 17 CHAPTER 1: AN INTRODUCTION . 19 1.1 CHAPTER INTRODUCTION . 19 1.2 WORK LIFE BALANCE: AN INTRODUCTION . 19 1.3 WLB: WESTERN VERSUS AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES . 21 1.4 RESEARCH AIMS AND OBJECTIVES . 23 1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY . 24 1.6 ORGANISATION OF THE THESIS . 25 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW . 28 2.1 CHAPTER INTRODUCTION . 28 2.2 EXISTING DEBATES CONCERNING WLB . 28 2.2.1 The definition of WLB . 28 2.2.2 What is balance? 30 2.3 THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO WLB . 33 2.4 WORK LIFE CONFLICT . 36 2.5 THE BUSINESS CASE FOR WLB INITIATIVES . 37 2.6 NATIONAL CONTEXT AND WLB . 40 2.6. 1 Cultural influences . 40 2.6. 2 Institutional influences . 42 2.6. 3 Economic influences . 45 2.6. 4 African Perspectives and WLB Practices . 46 2.7 CONTEXTS IN WHICH WLB POLICIES ARE DELIVERED . 49 2.7. 1 Line manager support . 49 2.7. 2 Take-up of WLB initiatives . 51 2.8 THE KENYAN PERSPECTIVE OF TRIBE AND GENDER . 52 2.8. 1 Tribal dominance . 52
HOW THE GERMAN EDUCATION SYSTEM MIGHT BETTER SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE OF MIGRANT ORIGIN

This paper extensively identifies gaps in the structures and systems in education and welfare frames and discourses which put people of Turkish origin at a disadvantage or as unequally treated compared to other sub-groups in Germany. This paper addresses a deepening analysis of the lack of necessary structures and systems. It considers discourses of inclusion that impede fundamental rights of these young people to make them full citizens of Germany and so empower them to full use of their agency. German politicians and society heavily discuss “integrating” Turkish youth to “German society” without discussing what are the available structures, systems and opportunities and what kinds of limitations and burdens these youth have that limit the extent to which they can be part of German society. Article visualizations:
Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis

A large literature suggests that the presence of refugees is associated with greater risk of conflict. We argue that the positive effects of hosting refugees on local conditions have been overlooked. Using global data from 1990 to 2018 on locations of refugee communities and civil conflict at the subnational level, we find no evidence that hosting refugees increases the likelihood of new conflict, prolongs existing conflict, or raises the number of violent events or casualties. Furthermore, we explore conditions where provinces are likely to experience substantively large decreases in conflict risk due to increased development. Analysis examining nighttime lights as a measure of development, coupled with expert interviews, support our claim. To address the possibility of selection bias, we use placebo tests and matching. Our research challenges assertions that refugees are security risks. Instead, we show that in many cases, hosting refugees can encourage local development and even conflict reduction.
The Impact of Cash Ratio, Debt To Equity Ratio, Receivables Turnover, Net Profit Margin, Return On Equity, and Institutional Ownership To Dividend Payout Ratio

The purpose of this research is to know the influence of cash ratio, DER, recivable turnover, NPM, ROE, and institutional ownership on dividend payout ratio at manufacturing company. This research was conducted at manufacturing company listed in BEI period 2011 until 2016. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling, which is a sample of 19 companies. Data analysis in this study using classical test, multiple linear regression analysis, F test, adjusted R square, and t test. From the results of the research is known that receivables turnover, return on equity, and institutional ownership have a significant positive effect on dividend payout ratio. While the rest, cash ratio, DER, and NPM did not significantly affect the dividend payout ratio in manufacturing companies in 2011-2016.
Unconstrained Periocular Face Recognition: From Reconstructive Dictionary Learning to Generative Deep Learning and Beyond

Many real-world face recognition tasks are under unconstrained conditions such as off-angle pose variations, illumination variations, facial occlusion, facial expression, etc. In this work, we are focusing on the real-world scenarios where only the periocular region of a face is visible such as in the ISIS case. In Part I of the dissertation, we will showcase the face recognition capability based on the periocular region, which we call the periocular face recognition. We will demonstrate that face matching using the periocular region directly is more robust than the full face in terms of age-tolerant face recognition, expression-tolerant face recognition, pose-tolerant face recognition, as well as contains more cues for determining the gender information of a subject. In this dissertation, we will study direct periocular matching more comprehensively and systematically using both shallow and deep learning methods. Based on this, in Part II and Part III of the dissertation, we will continue to explore an indirect way of carrying out the periocular face recognition: periocular-based full face hallucination, because we want to capitalize on the powerful commercial face matchers and deep learning-based face recognition engines which are all trained on large-scale full face images. The reproducibility and feasibility of re-training for a proprietary facial region, such as the periocular region, is relatively low, due to the nonopen source nature of commercial face matchers as well as the amount of training data and computation power required by the deep learning based models. We will carry out the periocular-based full face hallucination based on two proposed reconstructive dictionary learning methods, including the
Experience distribution, experienced leaders, and team performance

Abstract Although research has indicated that organisational performance can be improved by investigating and learning from experiences, some studies have found that organisations may generate incorrect lessons or fail to learn. This study addresses this inconsistency by turning attention to experience distribution over time. Drawing from the experiential learning perspective, we argue that highly concentrated failure experiences and highly dispersed success experiences in a time period will impose negative impacts on organisational learning. Further, we also find that experienced leaders will ameliorate such negative effects through “circumventing” and “inspiring” mechanisms. We find support for our theory through a set of panel data collected from the teams of National Basketball Association during the 2003–2004 and the 2012–2013 seasons.
Exploring the influence of demographic factors on perceived performance risk among youth towards online shopping in Punjab

The tremendous growth of internet has accounted for accelerated growth in e tailoring. Online shopping irrespective of its growth marked for small percentage of sale due to perceived risk. The study is designed to examine key components of perceived risk of online shopping among youth of high educational institutes of Punjab. The population consisted of online shoppers of universities of four cities Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Patiala and Amritsar of Punjab. Respondents were selected from different genders, age groups, monthly family income groups and qualifications from these major cities having online shopping experience. A pre structured questionnaire with five point likert rating scale was used to measure these dimensions of perceived risk among online buyers of four cities. Convenience sampling method was used to collect data from sampled respondents. Principal component analysis revealed four key factors of perceived risk in online buying. Performance risk was found as prime component of perceived risk. Influence of demographic factors on perceived performance risk was studied with the help of F ratio showing their relative significance.
International Deal Experience and Cross‐Border Acquisitions

I show that corporate directors' human capital facilitates international investments. Directors' experience with cross&#8208;border transactions positively influences firms' decisions to conduct their first cross&#8208;border acquisitions. Cross&#8208;border acquirers are more likely to buy firms headquartered in countries with which the directors have prior deal experience. This effect is strongest for target firms headquartered in culturally and institutionally dissimilar countries. Announced cross&#8208;border acquisitions are received more favorably by financial markets and are more likely to be completed successfully when the announcing firm has a director with cross&#8208;border acquisition experience. These effects are not driven by investment bank involvement in the deal process or by other forms of directors' human capital, and they are robust to endogeneity of director hires.
The effect of trading volumes on stock returns following large price moves

* The author is from The Economics and Management Department, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley Academic College, Emek Yezreel 19300, Israel, andreyk@yvc.ac. il. JEL CLASSIFICATION: G11, G14, G19 ABSTRACT: The study analyses the correlation between abnormal trading volumes accompanying large stock price changes and subsequent stock price dynamics. Assuming that abnormal trading volume associated with a large price move may serve as an indication of the extent of the immediate stock price reaction to the underlying company-specific shock, I suggest that large price moves accompanied by relatively high (low) abnormal trading volumes may be followed by price reversals (drifts). Analysing a large sample of major daily stock price moves and defining the latter according to a number of alternative proxies, I document that both large price increases and decreases accompanied by high (low) abnormal trading volumes are followed by significant price reversals (drifts) on each of the next two trading days and over fiveand twenty-day intervals following the initial price move, the magnitude of the reversals (drifts) increasing over longer post-event windows. The effect remains significant after accounting for additional company-specific (size, CAPM beta, historical volatility) and event-specific (stock’s absolute return on the event day) factors, and is robust to different methods of calculating abnormal returns and to different sample filtering criteria.
The Forex Trading System for Speculation with Constant Magnitude of Unit Return

The main purpose of this article is to investigate a speculative trading system with a constant magnitude of return rate. We consider speculative operations related to the exchange rate given as the quotient of the base exchange medium by the quoted currency. An exchange medium is understood as any currency or any precious metal. The unit return is defined as the return expressed in the quoted currency by the amount of base exchange medium. All possible states of the exchange market form a finite elemental space. All knowledge about the dynamics of this market is presented as a prediction table describing the conditional probability distributions of incoming exchange rate changes. On the other hand, in the proposed trading system each speculative operation is concluded in such a way that the gross payment is determined by the given magnitude of unit return. The paper contains an analysis of the following evaluation criteria: annual number of transaction, success probability, expected unit payment, expected unit profit, risk index, unit risk premium, return rate, interest rate, and interest risk premium. Both of these indices can be used to select the effective trading systems. Effectiveness is considered in the local sense and in the global sense.
Firm characteristics and forward-looking risk disclosure: Evidence from the Italian context

This paper aims to examine the relationship between firm determinants and forward-looking risk disclosure in the Italian context. In particular, analysing a sample of non-financial Italian listed companies, we ran a regression model to investigate the influence of preminent firms’ characteristics (independent variable) on the forward-looking risk disclosure (dependent variable). Findings highlight that firm size and independent directors are positively related to forward-looking risk information; on the contrary, other firms’ features are not statistically relevant. The results obtained suggest that, in the examined context, large sized companies are inclined to disclose forward-looking estimation to reduce asymmetry information and to attract potential investors. Moreover, larger firms are more likely to disclose additional information because they can bear more easily the cost of future projections and extended disclosure than the smallest companies. This study adds empirical findings to the accounting literature and it could be helpful to regulators and policy makers, in order to enhance information quality and to increase transparency in the annual report as well.
A typical IoT architecture-based regular monitoring of arthritis disease using time wrapping algorithm

Abstract In the midst of all the applications empowered by the Internet of Things (IoT), constant health surveying framework is an especially essential one. The leg movement monitoring framework is utilized to recognize the beginning time of joint pain illness. Wearable sensor gadgets and Uric acid (UA) sensor utilized as a part of IoT health monitoring framework for joint inflammation ailment have been creating a gigantic measure of information on a nonstop premise with rapid, change of huge health facts, and identification of these infections present some significant issues. These can be overwhelmed by utilizing the proposed framework for health data transformation and alongside the calculation utilized for the discovery of human foot movement for the GOUT arthritis diagnosis. Sensitivity and specificity are computed to assess the Time wrapping calculation-based characterization display for Arthritis ailment. The exploratory outcomes demonstrated the adequacy of the dynamic time wrapping technique. At last, ROC examination is conducted to distinguish the most significance clinical and laboratory assessments to get joint inflammation (GOUT arthritis) and kidney ailment.
South Korea’s (Incomplete) Middle-Power Diplomacy Toward ASEAN

This paper highlights Seoul’s middle-power activism toward the most important multilateral organisation in its near abroad, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It reviews how the successive administrations of Roh Moo-hyun (2003–2008), Lee Myung-bak (2008–2013) and Park Guen-hye (2013–2016) strove to assert Korean middle-powerism based on the conceptual foundations of their respective discourses. This paper argues that although South Korea’s strategic role as a middle power toward ASEAN had been limited due to the geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China, in the future this rivalry may open a new avenue of potential to increase South Korea’s strategic role as a middle power, appealing to ASEAN and its member states. In order to make good use of this opportunity, this paper recommends South Korea to deepen and broaden its engagement of with humanitarian norm-promoting organisations within ASEAN, especially the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission of Human Rights (AICHR) and the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre), and acknowledgement of the opportunity that other IJAPS, Vol. 15, No. 2, 117–142, 2019 South Korea’s Diplomacy 118 non-traditional security (NTS) issues provide for greater dialogue and cooperation with ASEAN.
Institutional change and entrepreneurship: The impact of incremental change, change due to conflict, and social change captured by migration.

This thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between institutional change and entrepreneurship development while maintaining across countries perspective. The focus of each chapter is to examine institutional change from a distinct perspective across the following three dimensions: (1) change that occurs incrementally over time, (2) discontinuous change that occurs due to conflict (revolutions, wars etc.), and finally, (3) social change as captured by migration. Following the introductory chapter, in the second one, an institutional perspective is used to investigate the ways in which change in formal political institutions influences change in Total Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) rates, utilising a large panel of 77 countries. This chapter stresses that changes in political institutions play an essential role as factors in the development of entrepreneurship (TEA). Additionally, this chapter also extends research in comparative entrepreneurship that hitherto has largely overlooked the issue of stability of political institutions even though this can be a key source of (or a constraint on) entrepreneurial behaviour. Chapter 3 examines how host country institutional environments influence intentions and motivations of immigrants about self-employment and their growth intentions with respect to their new ventures. Consistent with this, in this chapter, the focus is on macro level institutional factors that influence immigrant entrepreneurship activity compared to nonimmigrants in recipient countries. In its policy conclusions, the chapter also contributes to the economic growth debate through recommending targeted policies that aim to attract immigrant entrepreneurial efforts and enhance the economic dynamism. Finally, in chapter 4, seeks to understand how radical institutional change affects entrepreneurship. The empirical counterpart is related to the Arab Spring revolutions, and how those influenced decisions to start a business in three distinct Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries. This chapter contributes to the existing literature by exploring how radical institutional change after conflict (revolutions, war, and uprisings) both directly and in conjunction with the personal characteristics of individuals influence entrepreneurial activity.
Productivity Gap and Inward FDI Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from China

This paper constructs a two-stage sequential game model to investigate the spillover effect of inward FDI on improving the efficiency of domestic firms in host countries. Our model shows that, given the optimal joint-venture policy made by foreign firms, the impact of spillover effect of inward FDI is contingent upon the productivity gap between the domestic firms and foreign ones. In particular, we demonstrate that the spillover effect of FDI inward varies negatively with the productivity gap between domestic low-productivity firms and foreign firms and works conversely for high-productivity firms. This result suggests that once the productivity gap widens, the entry of foreign firms will increase the efficiency of high-productivity firms and reduce the efficiency of low-productivity firms. The implication of our theoretical predictions is that once the productivity of domestic firms (high-productivity firms) is close enough to the world productivity frontier, they will incur the positive spillover effect from the entry of foreign firms. In contrast, the domestic firms with low productivity which are more distant from the world productivity frontier will perform worse owing to the entry of foreign firms, thus leading to the negative spillover effect. Using the data from over 570,000 firms in Chinese manufacturing industry in 2011, we advance the understanding of the theoretical model through empirical analysis.
Technological innovation and the demand for labor by firms in expansion and recession

ABSTRACT With firm data from the Spanish Community Innovation Survey (CIS) for the period 2003–2014, we find a positive and significant effect of innovation in the demand for labor when firms introduce product and process innovations in the same time period. The effect of innovation on the demand for labor is countercyclical, higher in the recession, after 2008, than in the expansion, before 2008, but the probability that firms innovate in product and process is counter-cyclical, i.e. lower in the recession. Altogether, the elasticity of the demand for labor to the probability that firms introduce product and process innovations remains stable throughout the sample period, at around 0.035. Innovation contributes to stabilize average employment during the cycle, more so when the innovation is in product, alone or together with process, than when it is only in process. These results are broadly consistent with product and process innovations shifting firms’ demand and production functions upwards, but differentially in expansions (less product market competition) than in contractions (more competition).