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Employee Health: A Value Creating Organizational Resource

Kiyatkin, Lori - 2009

value creating organizational resource and the underlying mechanisms by which health may be subject to organizational …

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An Investigation into the Impact of Income, Culture and Religion on Consumption Behaviour: A Comparative Study of the Malay and the Chinese Consumers in Malaysia

Fatt Sian, Lai - 2009

The study of consumer behaviour has attracted much attention from researchers.Models have been postulated and re-postulated in many attempts to explain thedecision process of consumers as it changes over time and space, as well as indifferent environments such as culture, race and religion. The...

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Will People who Choose to Gamble their Money Also Choose to Gamble with their Health?

Koelmel, Elizabeth C. - 2009

This paper investigates the consistency with which people exhibit chance-taking behavior. By looking at the relationship between individuals’ gambling choices and their choices regarding fast-food consumption, junk-food consumption, exercise habits, video-game and computer-game playing, as...

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Exploring Lifestyle Orientation, Attitudes Toward Lifestyle Merchandising, and Attitudes Toward Lifestyle Advertising as Predictors of Behavioral Intention to Purchase Lifestyle Ho...

Wilbanks, Jennifer Kay - 2005

target the needs of specific psychographic segment, but rather creating lifestyles being aspired to obtain. Although …

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Do the Poor Pay More? An Empirical Investigation

Harnden, Amanda - 2007

Poverty and homelessness are a rising problem in the United States. For the individuals and families that have fallen under such circumstances, it can be very difficult to overcome poverty. This paper shows areas where low-income persons pay more money and how they are additionally...

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Retaining the visitor, enhancing the experience : identifying attributes of choice in repeat museum visitation

Burton, Christine; Louviere, Jordan; Young, Louise C. - 2009

How people make choices in relation to cultural and leisure consumption has been explored from the viewpoint of motivation, lifestyle segmentation, and lifecycle. Little is known about the specific characteristics associated with choices to visit, re-visit, or not to visit a museum....

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Supermodular mechanism design

Laurent A. Mathevet - Department of Economics, University of Texas, Austin - 2010

design approach that allows dealing with the multiple equilibrium problem, using mechanisms that are robust to bounded … rationality. This approach is a tool for constructing supermodular mechanisms, i.e. mechanisms that induce games with strategic … supermodular mechanism whose equilibria are contained in the smallest interval among all supermodular mechanisms. This is followed …

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Introducing differential kinematics to mechanical engineering students

Sultan, Ibrahim - 2009

Differential kinematics offers a simplified alternative to closed-form input-output equations needed to study the geometrical behaviour of linkages. For most linkages, these closed-form equations are either too messy or not possible to obtain, a fact that sometimes reflects negatively on how...

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Rising longevity, education, savings, and growth

Zhang, H.; Zhang, J. S.; Lee, R. - 2003

This paper examines the impact of declines in adult mortality on growth in an overlapping generations model. With public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it raises the saving rate and thereby increases the rate of...

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Heterogeneous Ability, Life Expectancy, and Social Security : Four Essays

Hupfeld, Stefan - 2008

2 (To Work or to Work Out: A Moral-Hazard Interpretation of Labor Supply, Retirement, and Investments in Longevity), I …, delayed retirement, and work out (interpreted as investments in longevity). The latter imposes higher effort costs on weekly … health status is.Subsequently, in Chapter 4 (Non-Monotonicity in the Longevity-Income Relationship), I show that for major …

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