A general theory of domain identification is used to describe achievement barriers still faced by women in advanced quantitative areas and by African Americans in school. The theory assumes that sustained school success requires identification with school and its subdomains; that societal pressures

in the management of business resources. However, there also is merit in the more traditional, smaller, suboptimal systems design approach. Such systems are relatively economical, quickly implemented, and easier to design and manage. In either case, since the technology permits "distributing" large

Over the last three decades Taiwan and South Korea have seen high sustained rates of growth in output and income. While high savings rates and substantial investments in new capital equipment are clearly an important part of their success, it is impossible to ignore the role of the export market

This paper considers the sources of skill formation in a modern economy and emphasizes the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills in producing economic and social success and the importance of both formal academic institutions and families and firms as sources of learning. Skill

Abstract. In this paper it is outlined the methodology of the model MIREM (Multicriteria In-dustrial and Regional Economic Model) as the empirical framework for the implementation of an industrial policy in the CEECs countries aspiring to enter the European Union. Its epistemological foundations

successful. It also suggests that there is no clear tradeoff between reduced exchange rate volatility and macroeconomic stability. Keywords: structural, traditional, volatility, monetary, fixed, floating, regime. JEL Classification Numbers: F31, F33

This study addressed the question of whether firms in a competitive, globally integrated environment face a "liability of foreignness " and to what extent either importing home-country organizational capabilities or copying the practices of successful local firms can help them over

In an economy experiencing endogenous economic growth and exogenous population growth, we explore two main themes: how urbanization affects efficiency of the growth process and how growth affects patterns of urbanization. Localized information spillovers promote agglomeration and human capital

and economic issues the features that are most essential to a solid understanding of the intrinsic fundamentals of network topology. We claim that very simple models that incorporate hard technological constraints on router and link bandwidth and connectivity, together with abstract models of user demand

Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic “enclaves ” within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use data from an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when govern-ment authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales