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With the growth globalization, an attribute that has gained recognition as a determinant in consumer purchasing is the food’s County-of-Origin. In 2002, congress first passed Country-of Origin Labeling (COOL) laws, but ran into much resistance from the food industry due to the cost that would...
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. With exogenous inertia, risk-dominant equilibria are selected independently of the length of memory. Without inertia …
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This research investigates inertia in a financial services context, with particular focus on the reasons for consumers …’ dissatisfaction and inert behaviour, and studies the customers’ complaining behaviours and past and future inertia. The study utilised … dissatisfaction included the number and size of account fees, whilst determinants of inertia were the perception of similarity between …
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inertia that may result as imperatives of cluster participants dislocate from those of their host industry. A sector in which …
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The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality … environment interpretation of the income inequality and health link. The hypotheses examined were that race …/ethnicity-specific IMRs are influenced by intra-race/ethnicity income inequality, and that these effects of income inequality on health are …
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. It was hypothesised that a greater association might be found between satisfaction and equality of income distribution … rather than between satisfaction and size of income. The interrelationship between wealth (GDPpc), equality of income and … mean satisfaction for fifteen EU states was assessed over a four year period (1995-1998). Equality of income was …
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This case study explores intercultural awareness and communication skills as part of the essential skills set of managers operating in today’s international hospitality and tourism industry. The movement of labour across the world, encouraged by push and pull factors in different economies...
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This paper proposes a simple variation of the Allingham and Sandmo (1972) construct and integrates it to a dynamic general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents. We study an overlapping generations framework i n which agents must initially decide whether to evade taxes or not. In the...
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complete adoption of more productive technologies. The issue of increasing income inequality in the process of technology … adoption opens up another direction for research. Specifically increasing inequality implies that distributive conflicts may … issues. Without any political considerations, taxes would leads to a reduction in inequality and convergence of incomes …
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, evidenced by ad hoc assumptions of cooperative wealth maximization. By integrating the underlying structure of inequality with …
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