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Are Lifetime Jobs Disappearing? Job Duration in the United States: 1973-1993
Farber, Henry S. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1995
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Are Lifetime Jobs Disappearing? Job Duration in the United States: 1973-1993
Farber, Henry S. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701603
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Fertility Decisions and Gender Differences in Labor Turnover, Employment, and Wages
Erosa, Andrés; Fuster, Luisa; Restuccia, Diego - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 5 (2002) 4, pp. 856-891
fertility on gender differences in labor turnover, employment, and wages. In our framework, individuals search for jobs and … accumulate general (experience) and specific (tenure) human capital when they work. They can also increase their wage by moving …, employment, and wages. We find that fertility decisions generate important gender differences in turnover rates, with long …
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Do high property taxes influence family forest land Tenure decisions?
Kilgore, Michael A. - In: Journal of Forest Economics 20 (2014) 2, pp. 161-173
Studies have repeatedly documented high property taxes as being a major determinant of a landowner's decision to divest of its forest land. To empirically investigate the relationship between property tax burden and forest land sale activity, property tax data and over 5300 Minnesota forest land...
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Watch your Workers Win. Changing Job Demands and HRM Responses
Haywood, Luke - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 22 (2011) 1, pp. 47-64
This paper considers how the demand for non-material aspects of jobs evolves over changing wealth levels and how firms may want to react. We first consider the importance of non-material job aspects in general before turning to two specific human resource practices: flexible working hour...
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News and Corporate Governance : What Dow Jones and Reuters Teach Us About Stewardship
Nordberg, Donald - 2007
The outcomes of near simultaneous bids for the news organizations Reuters Group plc and Dow Jones amp; Co. Inc. in 2007 hinged on mechanisms of corporate governance put in place at each company to protect the integrity and independence of the editorial operations. Neither company is a...
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Rebalancing the Board's Agenda : A Discussion Paper
Nordberg, Donald - 2007
Since the corporate governance scandals of 2001 and 2002, the work of boards of directors has been dominated by board processes and compliance, with a corresponding reduction in the emphasis on value creation. This discussion paper proposes a model for board activities and raises questions about...
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Professional Closure by Proxy : The Impact of Changing Educational Requirements on Class Mobility for a Cohort of Big 8 Partners
Baskerville, Rachel F. - 2008
Closure events impacting on class mobility may include mechanisms initiated by bodies other than the professional body. The research examines if the introduction of full-time study requirements at universities for aspiring accountants effectively introduced a closure mechanism in the accounting...
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The Fake Revolution : Understanding Legal Realism
Engle, Eric - 2008
Abstract: Legal interpretation in the United States changed dramatically between 1930 and 1950. The Great Depression and World War II unleashed radical critique (particularly prior to the war). Legal realism proposed radical new methods of legal interpretation to try to meet the challenges of...
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The Self-Organisation of Politics, Power and the Nation State
Fuchs, Christian - 2003
Society is self-organising or re-creative in the sense that new emergent structures result from interactions of actors, these structures enable and constrain actions and stimulate further practices. Political self-organisation is a reflexive process where political agents co-ordinate their...
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