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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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We explore the possibility that a systematic relationship exists between employment within a particular type of contract and risk preference. We exploit a set of proxies for risk preference, whereby some of the proxies capture risk loving behaviour (expenditure on gambling, smoking and alcohol)...
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Studies on globalisation suggest that a factor in the growth of nonstandard employment in developed economies has been the growing capacity of multinational corporations to arbitrage wage differentials across countries. This analysis applies in particular to industries subject to direct import...
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The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working ontheir own having no or just a few employees and where one can find also people working with lowreturns and having firms without stability or prosperous dynamics. However, even the area...
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. Studies have recently linked tuberculosis transmission to locations outside the household, and have associated these places …
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This Bachelor's paper is the analysis of Lithuanian household income distribution and differentiation. Household income … considered household income and its concept, structure, resources, income distribution and differentiation in determining their … causes. Practical part of this paper analyses household income dynamics, their structure and distribution among different …
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's household income and expenditure is important for economic development, living standards index. Therefore, theoretical part … defined the household income essence, function and classification. Disclosed their differentiation, the distribution problem …. There it is also presented the concept of household expenditure, and their types. Discussed the various theories in terms of …
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model is estimated using the existing data from household energy surveys or data from the energy sections of multi …-purpose household surveys. Potential applications of this model range from ex-ante reform evaluation to ex-post monitoring of policy …. The new model of intermittent supply developed in this dissertation is based on the household production function approach …
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