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Minimum wages, training wages and youth employment
Mangan, John; Johnston, John - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 1/2/3, pp. 415-429
equity grounds. Also, some US data question the employment‐boosting potential of reduced minimum youth wages. In this paper … recent international findings on the relationship between youth wages and employment are presented and compared with … and to provide further generalizations on the wider issue of employment and youth‐specific wages.  …
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Comparative welfare state impacts on work quality and job satisfaction: A cross-national analysis
Westover, Jonathan H. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) July, pp. 503-525
Purpose – The vast cross-disciplinary literature exploring work quality and job satisfaction has linked worker experiences to many individual, organizational, and social outcomes, yet this research has largely failed to shed much light on why cross-national differences in worker satisfaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551550
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Comparative welfare state impacts on work quality and job satisfaction
Westover, Jonathan H. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) 7, pp. 503-525
Purpose – The vast cross‐disciplinary literature exploring work quality and job satisfaction has linked worker experiences to many individual, organizational, and social outcomes, yet this research has largely failed to shed much light on why cross‐national differences in worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805742
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Policy in the knowledge economy social network: a social capital redux
Goorha, Prateek - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) September, pp. 930-944
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest how enabling policy should be focused in a knowledge economy by developing the concept of a knowledge economy social network (KESN). Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs an interdisciplinary approach in developing the KESN by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004993586
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Is the performance improvement effect of social capital contingent on life cycle stages of professional athletes? Evidence from motorboat racing in Japan
Fukugawa, Nobuya - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 12, pp. 2466-2485
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether bonding and bridging social capital of professional athletes affect their performance and whether the impacts vary according to their life cycle stages. Design/methodology/approach This study establishes an unbalanced panel of motorboat...
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Relationships of collapse: network brokerage, opportunism and fraud in financial markets
Hannibal, Bryce; Ono, Hiroshi - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 12, pp. 2097-2111
Purpose This paper explores the social-behavioral aspects of financial markets. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of social relations and networks which contributed to the market crash in the US telecommunications sector in the late 1990s. Design/methodology/approach A network...
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Policy in the knowledge economy social network: a social capital redux
Goorha, Prateek - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) 9, pp. 930-944
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest how enabling policy should be focused in a knowledge economy by developing the concept of a knowledge economy social network (KESN). Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs an interdisciplinary approach in developing the KESN by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805556
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Formation of desired values: the role of parents
Abdullah Yusof, Selamah; Mohd Amin, Ruzita; Aslam … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 6, pp. 468-479
This study investigates the values of teenagers and their parents, and the influence parents have on the values of their children. Values are categorized into terminal and instrumental values. Different from previous works on values, the measurement of both these values is based on...
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Admired values: the case of teenagers in Malaysia
Abdullah Yusof, Selamah; Mohd Amin, Ruzita - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 6, pp. 802-811
The study examines the values that Malaysian teenagers admire, and how their values differ across age, gender, ethnic group and other characteristics. It also analyzes the relationship between students’ and perceived teachers’ admired values. Factor analysis is used to identify a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014806276
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The missing movement: a Polanyian analysis of pre-crisis America
Herman, Dan - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) July, pp. 624-641
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek to apply Polanyi's theory of the double movement as a response to the effects of economic liberalization and globalization to the pre-2007 American economy. In so doing, it seeks to ascertain the reasons why this assumed double movement did not...
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