Konrad Bachmann (1939-2012)

Obituary: Dr. Laurent Descarries (1939–2012)

On October 3rd 2012, one of Canada’s leading neuroscientists, Dr. Laurent Descarries, a professor at the Université de Montréal, passed away at the age of 73. Dr. Descarries was internationally renowned for his extensive work on the ultrastructural organization of monoaminergic and cholinergic innervations in the brain, and in particular for his work demonstrating the mostly asynaptic character...

Ronald Bachmann and Sebastian

Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers’ employment histories, we investigate how workers’ labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate hazard rate models for match separations, as well as for worker flows from employment to another job, to unemployment, and to nonparticipation. Outsourcing is fou...

Obituary: Odile Bain (28/04/1939–16/10/2012)

Odile Bain was born on April 28, 1939 in Dalat (VietNam) where her father, a military officer, was based at the time. Her high school days were spent in Dakar (Senegal) and in 1960 she graduated from the Faculty of Biology in Rennes (France). After a short stay at the Faculty as a teaching assistant, she moved to the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris (France) in September 1964, wher...

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Edvard Konrad

This paper explores the relationships between basic cultural characteristics of countries and some economic indexes. As cultural characteristics, the data from The Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Research Program (GLOBE) about the 9 cultural dimensions for 60 countries were used. Two facets of cultural dimensions were measured: the perceptions of actual practices and...