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Die Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft führte zu einem Anstieg der ins Ausland entsandten Arbeitnehmer. Dabei konnte ein scheinbar paradoxes Phänomen beobachtet werden: die meisten Expatriates vereinigten zwar vermeintlich exzellente Fähigkeiten, um ihre Arbeit im Ausland erfolgreich zu...
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Seit einigen Jahren veröffentlicht der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) den Index "Gute Arbeit", der die Qualität der Arbeit aus Sicht der Beschäftigten messen soll. Der Index vermittelt ein Bild "mittelmäßiger Arbeit" in Deutschland, weil er die Messlatte für das Prädikat "gute Arbeit"...
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This paper proposes a theoretical concept of cross cultural discursive competence (CCDC). As an initial step, it reviews and critiques a series of in the relevant areas of intercultural communication, genre analysis and contrastive rhetoric and points out that it is imperative to explore what...
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Comparing groups with respect to hypothetical constructs requires that the measurement models are equal across groups. Otherwise conclusions drawn from the observed indicators regarding differences at the latent level (mean differences, differences in the structural relations) might be severly...
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The measurement of social norms plays a pivotal role in many social sciences. While economists predominantly conduct experiments, sociologists rather employ (factorial) surveys. Both methods, however, suffer from distinct weaknesses. Experiments, on the one hand, often fall short in the...
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Households are dynamic while most surveys only collect information on individuals who are present at a single point in time. We exploit a unique and thorough household membership enumeration in Burkina Faso to consider the analytical costs of the typical static household roster. We document that...
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