Browsing Faculty Work (AUS Sustainability) by Series "School of Business Administration Working Paper Series"
Now showing items 1-9 of 9
-
Anticipated Discrimination, Choices, and Performance: Experimental evidence
(American University of Sharjah, 2018)This paper studies experimentally anticipated discrimination across gender, hiring patterns, and performance in tasks with different stereotypes in a labor-market setting. Participants are assigned to a seven-people group ... -
Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis
(American University of Sharjah, 2018)This paper used time-series data to investigate the causal relation between foreign direct investment and economic growth in two MENA countries, namely Egypt and Jordan. The methodology used in this study follows Toda and ... -
Endogenous Sanctioning Institutions and Migration Patterns: Experimental Evidence
(University of Exeter, 2017)We experimentally analyze the effect of the endogenous choice of sanctioning institutions on cooperation and migration patterns across societies. In our experiment, subjects are allocated to one of two groups, are endowed ... -
Forecasting Energy Demand: The Case of United Arab Emirates
(American University of Sharjah, 2018)The purpose of this study is to forecast energy use in United Arab Emirates (UAE) using annual data over the period 1976-2009. The methodology used in this study follows the artificial neural networks analyses. We use four ... -
The Influences on Female Participation and Progress in the Labor Force: Implications for Human Resource Management in the United Arab Emirates
(American University of Sharjah, 2013)This paper reports on the first qualitative research study of women’s life histories in an investigation of their participation and progress in the labor force of the United Arab Emirates. Data were collected through ... -
International Diversification and Corporate Social Responsibility
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-11-07)Using a large sample of 3,040 U.S. firms and 16,606 firm-year observations over the 1991-2010 period, we find strong evidence that firm internationalization is positively related to the firm's corporate social responsibility ... -
Parental Involvement and Children's Development: Can There Be Positive Side Effects?
(American University of Sharjah, 2018)A growing body of literature indicates that meaningful time spent with parents has a significant influence on early childhood development, a future accumulation of a wide array of cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and ... -
Parental Transfers and Fertility: Does the Recipient's Gender Matter?
(American University of Sharjah, 2017-06-02)This paper examines the role of parental transfers on family size. We introduce a simple theoretical model of fertility decision where preferences towards children may differ between female and male spouses. Parental ... -
Social Cohesion and Optimal Redistribution in Economies with Long-Run Growth
(American University of Sharjah, 2018)We suggest that as social cohesion improves, the macroeconomic gains from progressive redistribution decline. Social interactions facilitate diffusion of nonrival knowledge. The consequent bridging of the knowledge gaps ...