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Changes in Occupational Demand Structure and their Impact on Individual Wages
Fedorets, Alexandra - 2011
This paper estimates wage losses arising due to changes in the structure of demand for occupations. The data on occupational changes made for the sake of adjustment to the changes in the demand structure come from the German reunification of 1990. Endogenous occupational changes are instrumented...
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Essays on the distributional impacts of government
Siminski, Peter, Economics, Australian School of … - 2008
This thesis consists of three independent essays, unified by the common theme of the distributional impacts of government.The first paper estimates the price elasticity of demand for pharmaceuticals amongst high-income older people in Australia. It exploits a natural experiment by which some...
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Contractor Financial Capability Assessments
Ng, Thomas S.; Skitmore, Martin - 1999
The insolvency rate of construction companies is much higher than that of other types of companies. In order to survive, many contractors may try to submit suicidally low bids and/or obtain work that is beyond their financial capability. The employment of financially incapable contractors not...
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Infusion of information systems in the stockbroking sector
Gharavi, Hosein - 2006
The Australian stockbroking sector has been at the forefront of integrating information systems (IS) in its daily operations. Trade and clearance account for a large percentage of processes undertaken in a brokerage house. Upon integration of IS, the trade and clearance processes of the sector...
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LOGÍSTICA INTERNA DE FRUTAS, LEGUMES E VERDURAS (FLV) EM SUPERMERCADOS: UM ESTUDO MULTICASOS EM CAMPO GRANDE/MS.
Campeao, Patricia; Oliveira, Leidy Diana Souza De; … - 2008
A presente pesquisa tem como objeto de investigação o sistema de logística interna de FLV em supermercados. Estabeleceu-se como objetivo geral caracterizar as operações logísticas internas de FLV utilizadas pelos supermercados. Especificamente: a) identificar as atividades e fluxos da...
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Estudo sobre os Processos de Recrutamento e Seleção em Agroindústrias: uma análise em dois estudos de casos
Araujo, Geraldino Carneiro; Dias, Edilaine Mendes - 2008
case study was done in two agricultural industries checking theprocess of recruitment and selection of staff. The type of … recruitment and selection. It is evident that the process of recruitment and selection should be made with great care, because the … specific. An ideal model forrecruitment and selection should be the one where the applicant's vague participateactively in …
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Economic competition and evolution: Are there lessons from ecology?
Tisdell, C. - 2004
After generally discussing models in ecology and economics that combine competition, optimization, and evolution, this article concentrates on models of intraspecific competition. It demonstrates the importance of diversity/inequalities within populations of species and other environments for...
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Returns from investing in Australian equity superannuation funds, 1991-1999
Drew, M. E.; Stanford, J. D. - 2003
savings into retirement income more efficiently through the use of passive alternatives to the stock selection problem. …
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Comparing Five Empirical Biodata Scoring Methods for Personnel Selection
Ramsay, Mark J. - 2002
A biodata based personnel selection measure was created to improve the retention rate of Catalog Telemarketing …
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Staff recruitment, selection and retention in family-owned small businesses
Cameron, Leone C - 2008
contributing to Australia’s future prosperity (Schaper, 2000). Effective recruitment, selection and retention of employees are part …, 1998).Effective recruitment and selection has regularly been associated with positive retention and performance outcomes … were to understand the variables and dynamics of the recruitment, selection and retention process. This study focused on …
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