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The psychological impacts of long-term unemployment, sex differences and activity: a case study analysis

Muller, Juanita; Delahaye, Brian; Winocur, Sharon; … - 1996

There is renewed interest in the use of qualitative methods in the unemployment research arena to provide a richer understanding of the unemployment experience. This study is designed to investigate the effects of long-term unemployment on psychological well-being, sex differences and the...

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The impact of gender effects on consumers' perceptions of brand equity: A cross-cultural investigation.

Ye, Lei - 2008

Despite a long-standing tradition to view gender as a unitary theoretical construct, there is an increasing approbation afforded to gender identity as a multifarious construct. Over and above physiological characteristics, gender identity is a psychological and a social construct. More than...

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Employment and remuneration of Irish chartered accountants : evidence of gender differences

Brennan, Niamh; Nolan, Patrick - 1998

Literature on gender based salary differentials has proliferated in recent years but there have been few studies on salary differentials in the accounting profession. This paper examines factors influencing remuneration of Irish chartered accountants. Responses to the Leinster Society of...

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Effects of industry growth and decline on gender and education wage gaps in the 1980s

Devereux, Paul J. - 2005

The author uses longitudinal data to study the effects of industry growth and decline on wage changes between 1976 and 2001. He finds that over this period, workers who were initially in industries that subsequently expanded enjoyed faster wage growth than other workers. Moreover, wage growth...

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Public sector pay gap in France : new evidence using panel data

Bargain, Olivier; Melly, Blaise - 2008

We estimate the public wage gap in France for the period 1990-2002, both at the mean andat different quantiles of the wage distribution, for men and women separately. We account forunobserved heterogeneity by using fixed effects estimations on panel data and, departingfrom usual practice, allow...

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Unemployment and life satisfaction: a non-linear adaptation process

Georgellis, Yannis; Gregoriou, Andros; Healy, Jerome; … - 2008

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to model the dynamic path of adjustment towards pre-unemployment levels of wellbeing for a group of full-time workers who experienced job loss. Design/methodology/approach – Based on data from the German Socio-economic Panel, a large-scale panel survey,...

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Unemployment alters the set point for life satisfaction.

Lucas, Richard E; Clark, Andrew E; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2004

According to set-point theories of subjective well-being, people react to events but then return to baseline levels of happiness and satisfaction over time. We tested this idea by examining reaction and adaptation to unemployment in a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 individuals...

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Having a foot on each shore: Bridging global software development in the case of SMEs

Richardson, Ita; Avram, Gabriela; Deshpande, Sadhana; … - 2008

In a globalised world economy, small and mediumsized companies (SMEs) are now entering the global software engineering (GSE) arena, but their involvement is more often opportunistic than carefully planned. Considered until a few years ago a major destination for outsourcing/offshoring, Ireland...

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Innovation Transformation: A Guidebook for Small Business Development: Inform, Expand, and Deliver

Fitzgerald, Ann K. - 2008

, entrepreneurship, education, psychology, and sociology. Consequently, ITG approaches innovation problems more accurately by …

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Influences on the performance of organizational knowledge transfer.

Meckler, Mark Robert. - Florida Atlantic University

, event management, sensemaking), information technology (media richness, communication technology) and epistemology (critical … of attention, communication media, sources of meaning and perceived knowledge impedance characteristics that affect; (c …, event management, sensemaking), information technology (media richness, communication technology) and epistemology (critical …

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