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UNINA9910462333903321 |
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Ojaide Tanure <1948-> |
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Drawing the map of heaven [[electronic resource] ] : an African writer in America / / by Tanure Ojaide |
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Lagos, : Malthouse Press, 2012 |
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978-8422-69-1 |
1-283-59345-9 |
9786613905901 |
978-8422-68-3 |
978-8422-67-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Biography |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; PREFACE; CONTENTS; 1. LEAVING HOME; 2. BORN TO MOVE; 3. BLACK, BUT NOT QUITE BLACK; 4. THE WALLA WALLA YEAR; 5. A NIGERIAN SOUTHERNER IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH; 6. NORTH CAROLINA; 7. REPRESENTATIVE OF A FOREIGN STATE; 8. AFRICAN FAMILY TIES IN AMERICA; 9. DIMENSIONS OF DIFFERENCE, DIMENSIONS OF SAMENESS; 10. DEFINING MOMENT: THE OJ SIMPSON CASE; 11. MIND READERS AND THOUGHTFUL SINGERS |
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The celebrated Nigerian writer Tanure Ojaide relates here his experience of living in the United States where he has been based teaching and writing since 1996. Drawing the Map of Heaven picks up where his earlier memoir, Great Boys. An African Childhood which charted his upbringing in Nigeria by his Grandmother, left off. Less a purely personal tale and more a story of the many other African immigrants in the United States Ojaide in the text uses ""we"" to speak collectively for a traditionally communal society now residing in an individualistic setting. As much a reflection of an African ba |
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UNINA9910454478703321 |
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The analysis of firms and employees [[electronic resource] ] : quantitative and qualitative approaches / / edited by Stefan Bender ... [et al.] |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
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1-282-07034-7 |
9786612070341 |
0-226-04289-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (398 p.) |
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A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report |
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Employees |
Industrial organization |
Industrial sociology |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The effect of HRM practices and R&D investment on worker productivity / Fredrick Andersson, Clair Brown, Benjamin Campbell, Hyowook Chiang, and Yooki Park -- Using behavioral economic field experiments at a firm : the context and design of the Truckers and Turnover Project / Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Kirsten Monaco, Kay Porter, and Aldo Rustichini -- Subjective evaluation of performance and evaluation interview : empirical evidence from France / Marc-Arthur Diaye, Nathalie Greenan, and Michal W. Urdanivia -- Do initial conditions persist between firms? : an analysis of firm-entry cohort effects and job losers using matched employer-employee data / Till von Wachter and Stefan Bender -- Changes in workplace segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : evidence from matched employer-employee data / Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark, and Melissa McInerney -- The effect of tuition reimbursement on turnover : a case study analysis / Colleen Flaherty Manchester -- Ownership and wages : estimating public-private and foreign-domestic differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986 to 2003 / John S. Earle and Álmos |
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Telegdy -- Insider privatization and careers : a study of a Russian firm in transition / Guido Friebel and Elena Panova -- Trade and workforce changeover in Brazil / Marc-Andreas Muendler -- Job creation abroad and worker retention at home / Sascha O. Becker and Marc-Andreas Muendler -- Wage and productivity premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa / Johannes Van Biesebroeck. |
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The long-term impact of globalization, outsourcing, and technological change on workers is increasingly being studied by economists. At the nexus of labor economics, industry studies, and industrial organization, The Analysis of Firms and Employees presents new findings about these impacts by examining the interaction between the internal workings of businesses and outside influences from the market using data from countries around the globe. The result is enhanced insight into the dynamic interrelationship between firms and workers. A dis |
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UNINA9910369925203321 |
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Autore |
Zenker Anja |
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International Climate Agreements under Review : The Potential of Negotiation Linkage between Climate Change and Preferential Free Trade / / by Anja Zenker |
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Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Springer VS, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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1 online resource (xvii, 189 pages) : illustrations |
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Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection, , 2626-2835 |
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Political planning |
Energy policy |
Energy and state |
International relations |
Public Policy |
Energy Policy, Economics and Management |
International Relations |
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Mitigation Incentives in the Post‐2020 Climate Change Framework -- International Climate Agreements: A Survey of the Game‐Theoretic Literature -- Building a Climate‐Trade Coalition in a Downstream vs. Upstream System of Emission Trading -- WTO Compatibility of a Climate‐Trade Agreement. |
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Given the shortcomings of the Paris Agreement, Anja Zenker examines the potential of free trade benefits as an incentive mechanism for an effective and stable climate change cooperation of states. She addresses the question of how the specific policy design affects the success of the agreement, market and trade outcomes, as well as the compatibility with multilateral WTO obligations. Contents Mitigation Incentives in the Post‐2020 Climate Change Framework International Climate Agreements: A Survey of the Game‐Theoretic Literature Building a Climate‐Trade Coalition in a Downstream vs. Upstream System of Emission Trading WTO Compatibility of a Climate‐Trade Agreement Target Groups Academics, researchers, and students in the fields of environmental and resource economics, international economics (trade and the environment), applied game theory, international policy, international environmental law, WTO law Experts and decision makers in the fields of energy policy, (renewable) energy industry, foreign relations, trade and development cooperation The Author From 2012 to 2019, Dr. Anja Zenker was a lecturer and research associate at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Chemnitz University of Technology. Since then, she has worked as a policy officer for agriculture, environment, energy and transport in the Representation of the Free State of Thuringia to the European Union. |
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