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HRD Strategies Making a Difference in Regional Australia: Implications for Local Action in a Global Context

Hyland, Paul; Becker, Karen L.; Acutt, Bruce - 2005

Effective Human Resource Development (HRD) has long been recognised as a critical element in overall organisational strategy, and in turn is important to the ongoing sustainability of organisations. In this paper, the importance of effective HRD strategies and interventions are considered,...

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Labor Market Institutions and Firm Policy - Theoretical and Experimental Insights

Paul, Christian - 2009

In this thesis, we theoretically and experimentally analyze three aspects of labor markets. We first ask whether the introduction of a minimum wage not only increases the wages of workers who previously earned less than this minimum wage, but also of those who earned considerably more already....

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Quality Uncertainty And Adverse Selection In Sponsored Search Markets

Animesh, Animesh; Ramachandran, Vandana; Viswanathan, Siva - University of Maryland; University of Maryland; … - 2005

Sponsored search mechanisms, where advertisers bid for placement to beas close to the top in the listing of search … results, are the fastestgrowing among online search models. Sponsored search in popular searchservices such as Google and … Yahoo! employ an auction mechanism whereinfirms can bid, for a better placement in the (sponsored) search results …

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Word of Mouth and Taste Matching: A Theory of the Long Tail

Hervas-Drane, Andres - Columbia University and Universitat Pompeu Fabra - 2007

assortments. Consumers facea search problem within an assortment of horizontally differentiatedproducts supplied by a monopolist …. They may search for a product matchby drawing products from the assortment or by seeking word of mouthrecommendations from …

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How consumers search for information online: A focus group investigation

Luck, Edwina M. - 2003

Research on Internet usage focuses on enjoyment, fun and service encounters provided most focus group participants with pleasurable experiences. However, in this exploratory research four focus groups were conducted to determine other factors. Recruits came from a mixture of undergraduate...

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The Law of One Price? The Impact of IT-Enabled Markets on Consumer Search and Retailer Pricing

Smith, Michael D. - 2001

consumer search in electronic markets. In conventional markets, consumer search costs are primarily a function of the consumer … electronic markets, consumer search costs are primarily a function of the consumer’s mental awareness of different retailers … — and this awareness is likely to be concentrated in the hands of a few retailers.Based on this model of consumer search, IT …

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Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Smith, Michael D. - 2000

There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new nearly "frictionless market." Our research empirically analyzes the characteristics of the Internet as a channel for two categories of homogeneous products-books and CDs. Using a data set of over 8,500 price observations collected...

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Long-Term Unemployment and Subsidizing Vacancies in a Growth-Matching Model

Birk, Angela - 2001

How can long-term unemployment be reduced by policy measures of the government? In this paper a growth-matching-model is developed, in which the unemployment pool consists of heterogeneous unemployed workers, short-term and long-term unemployed, and with an endogenous skill-depreciation of the...

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Qualification-Mismatch and Long-Term Unemployment in a Growth-Matching Model

Birk, Angela - 2001

How does technical progress affect long-term unemployment? The relationship between long-term unemployment and the rate of growth attributable to technical progress is evaluated in a growth-matching-model with heterogeneous jobless workers and with endogenously determined long-term unemployed...

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Whale-watching and Herring Fishing: Joint or Independent Production?

Lee, Min-Yang A. - 2008

effort and oceanographic data. This dataset is used to test the hypothesis that intensive fishing effort increases the search …

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