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`Do-It-Yourself': Self-checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Self-Service Trend in American Business
Andrews, Christopher K. - 2009
, their effect upon work and employment in the industry, and the public's perception and attitude towards the technology. This …A significant portion of sociology has always taken as its central focus the underlying relationship between economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450887
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Mobile livelihoods: a case study of Lithuanian international long-haul truck drivers
Gordon, William - 2011
Research Question: how are Lithuanian international long-haul truck drivers’ livelihoods constructed in terms of work …, home, and everyday life? Research Problem and significance. The aim of this research is to look at work, home, and everyday … analyze empirical work from the field of Lithuanian long-haul truck drivers based on emic frameworks of ‘kasdienybė’ and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009479004
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The long-run determinants of Australian income inequality
Gaston, Noel; Rajaguru, Gulasekaran - 2009
Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and 1990s. However, considerable uncertainty still exists as to which factors have been the most important causes of this development. This article uses a measure of income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441597
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Technologie, Lernexternalitäten und Ungleichentwicklung: Einkommenszyklen offener Volkswirtschaften
Andrä, Jan - 2011
Ländern und zwischen den Technologiegenerationen und durch Migration von Arbeit. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474402
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Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters
Chen, Daniel L.; Horton, John J.; Shaw, Aaron D. - 2011
The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this paper, we report the results of an experiment - conducted in an online labor market - that measured the effectiveness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471553
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AEC industry culture: a need for change
Weippert, Achim; Kajewski, Stephen L. - 2004
participants to do business through information and communication technology (ICT) tools and systems is dependent on the innovation … of the user, not only the technology itself – i.e. the successful implementation of ICT requires careful consideration to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437525
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Export specialization and economic growth
Plumper, T; Graff, M - 2001
Traditional economic wisdom claims that - while global economic integration is beneficial for economic performance - a country's trade specialization pattern has no impact on its economic performance. In this paper, we seek to cast doubt on this aspect of mainstream economics using a very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448494
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Rural Income and Wealth Inequality in China--- A Study of Anhui and Sichuan Provinces, 1994-1995
Li, Ying - 2000
China has been experiencing a great transition from a socialist collective economy to a market economy since 1978. Before the transition started, the Communist Party had established a socialist collective system with very low levels of income and wealth inequality. With the deepening of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434114
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Consultation and communications in family businesses in Great Britain
Harris, Richard; Reid, Renee S.; McAdam, Rodney - 2004
Nationally representative data on family businesses are available in the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, alongside comparable information for other types of firms. We use these data to compare differences in the use of different consultation and communication procedures. We cover such...
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