A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

Introducing the Study of Lean and Value-Based Management -- Theoretical Background of Lean and Value-Based Management -- Methodology to Align Lean and Value-Based Management -- Examining Prior Research of Lean Management -- Lean Value Creation Process: Findings from Primary Data -- Discussion of...

This collection of essays covers a diverse set of topics related to household behavior and welfare. Prices play a key role in several of the essays, particularly the distributional implications of price movements, and the effects of changes in relative prices on inequality and poverty. This book...

1. Introduction -- 2. Definition, Measurement, and Conceptual Issues -- 3. Global Trends in Labor Income Share: Country Level -- 4. Global Trends in Labor Income Share: Sector Level -- 5. Global Trends in Labor Income Share: Firm Level -- 6. The Economic Forces Behind Labor Income Share: Theory...

Dieses Buch zeigt, dass E-Mail-Marketing für die Unternehmenskommunikation unverzichtbar ist und bleibt. Es gibt über vier Milliarden E-Mail-Accounts, aber „nur“ knapp drei Milliarden Facebook-Nutzer. Schon allein durch diese Zahlen wird die Relevanz des E-Mail-Marketings deutlich. Durch...

An advantage of collective wage agreement is that search and business-stealing externalities can be internalized. A disadvantage is that it takes more time before an optimal allocation is reached because more productive firms (for a particular worker type) can no longer signal this by posting...

Dieses Buch unterstützt Studierende bei der Anfertigung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten mit einem quantitativen Fokus. Mittels Best-Practice-Beispielen aus Masterarbeiten werden das wissenschaftliche Vorgehen sowie die Anwendung unterschiedlicher quantitativer Methoden anwendungsnah präsentiert....

Globalization is blamed for many socio-economic shortcomings. I discuss the consequences of globalization by surveying the empirical globalization literature. My focus is on the KOF indices of globalization (Dreher 2006a and Dreher et al. 2008a), that have been used in more than 100 studies....

We study competition among a score of firms participating in an online market for a commodity computer component. Firms were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first), with better ranks contributing to firms' sales....