Publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a flagship indicator of scientific prestige, shows dramatic gender disparities. A bibliometric analysis included yoked-control authors matched for Ph.D. prestige and cohort. Though women publish less, at slower annual rates, they are more cited in handbooks and textbooks per JPSP-article-published. No gender differences emerged on...

The last wave of EU enlargement ended on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania and Bulgaria. Many countries of the South-Eastern Europe aspire to join the EU. Croatia appears to be the next prospective member, so the aim of this paper was to classify Croatia and EU 27 Member States according to the structural economic indicators. These countries were gathered into homogenous groups in te...

This study measures the impact of investment climate factors on the total factor productivity (TFP) of agricultural manufacturing firms in Hanoi, Vietnam. Endogeneity of the production function and of the investment climate variables is addressed by using econometric models, based on individual firm information, and by aggregating investment climate factors by various business lines. Specifical...

Railway wireless communication has become an indispensable part to provide the reliability and safety of the railway operation as well as the improved railway services. In addition, advanced mobile communication technologies have triggered new railway customer services. Thanks to many benefits of the 4-generation mobile communication technology, long-term evolution (LTE), this technology is one...

In this article, we analyze the impact of uncertainty on the hiring process. We show the connection between models of statistical discrimination where uncertainty can work against groups that have less reliable indicators of future productivity and models of option value where uncertainty about future productivity can be beneficial for these groups. These models generate hypotheses about the re...

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In 2003, the Productivity Commission report Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2003 demonstrated that Australia now has an extensive (though not time-deep) statistical archive through which we can compare Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. The report points to twelve ‘headline indicators’, and seven ‘strategic areas for action’, and it operationalises the ‘strategic areas for...