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Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion (SOWING): National Report (Portugal)
Moniz, António; Gomes, Cláudia; Machado, Tiago; Urze, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
taking place at the workplace level (job enlargement/enrichment, changing character of work, work load). The Portuguese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619666
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Individuals’ behaviour with respect to parking alternatives: a laboratory experiment
Bergantino, Angela Stefania; De Carlo, Angela; Morone, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
address the parking choice problem by means of a laboratory experiments, which aims to collect disaggregate data on travellers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266116
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Tax salience: an experimental investigation
Morone, Andrea; Nemore, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
laboratory experiment that attempts to answer two relevant questions: (1) Do subjects’ behaviour change with a less salient tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266124
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An Experimental Examination of Competitor-Based Price Matching Guarantees
Datta, Shakun; Offenberg, Jennifer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
We use experimental methods to demonstrate the anti-competitive potential of price matching guarantees in both symmetric and asymmetric cost duopolies. Our findings establish that when costs are symmetric, price-matching guarantees significantly increase market prices. In markets with cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623547
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Marxian debates on the falling rate of profit
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to examine the discussion among marxists about the rate of profit. This is done by the method of symptomatic reading, hence in a different way from what has become standard. Beginning from the fact that Marx and his critics draw diametrically opposite conclusions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789922
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A Gradual Exit may Not Make for a Happier Retirement?
Calvo, Esteban; Haverstick, Kelly; Sass, Steven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This study explores the factors that affect an individual’s happiness while transitioning into retirement. Recent studies highlight gradual retirement as an attractive option to older workers as they approach full retirement. However, it is not clear whether phasing or cold turkey makes for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267891
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Working in Southern Europe in Times of Crisis – Myths and Demons.
Tsatsos, Aristidis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Citizens of Southern Europe have been presented by the German media and politicians as lazy and work aversive. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258684
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Satisfaction with life in cross-cultural setting – Case of European expatriates in India
Gupta, Vineet; Dasgupta, Pinaki; Chakrabarty, Subhajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
context. However work life conflict remained significant in the empirical analysis. Work impacts family in more ways than vice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259445
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What Makes Retirees Happier: A Gradual or 'Cold Turkey' Retirement?
Calvo, Esteban; Haverstick, Kelly; Sass, Steven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This study explores the factors that affect an individual’s happiness while transitioning into retirement. Recent studies highlight gradual retirement as an attractive option to older workers as they approach full retirement. However, it is not clear whether phasing or cold turkey makes for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260123
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The globalisation in the clothing sector and its implications for work organisation: a view from the Portuguese case
Moniz, António; Paulos, Margarida Ramires - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
in the organisation of work and in occupational careers in the sector. With the pressure of global competitiveness in … results from the European project WORKS – Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society (6th Framework … what concerns time and prices, very few companies are able to keep a position in the market without changes in organisation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787089