Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen ist Gegenstand einer stark polarisierten Debatte zwischen ebenso unbedingten Befürwortern wie Gegnern. Das Buch vertritt demgegenüber eine differenzierte These: Demnach entfaltet sich das gesellschaftspolitische Potential des Grundeinkommens als regulativer...

Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...

The purpose of this study is to identify ideal behaviors and attitudes that are needed by service providers that cater to highly vulnerable populations. While the conceptualization of customer vulnerability has been widely debated in business, marketing, sociology, and psychology scholarly...

OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in socio-economic differentials in all-cause mortality in Sydney over a 25-year period (1970-94). METHODS: Five measures of single indicators (two for occupation, two for education and one for income) and a composite measure of socio-economic disadvantage based on...

The focus of this thesis is on whether or not it is possible to decouple economic growth from the physical growth of the economy and its associated negative environmental pressures and pollution. The thesis demonstrates that it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling of economic...

Year 2019 marks 100 years since the founding of the International Labour Organization, one of the oldest international organizations. This organization is dedicated to promoting social justice and respect for human rights, especially internationally recognized right to work, advancing the idea...

Year 2019 marks 100 years since the founding of the International Labour Organization, one of the oldest international organizations. This organization is dedicated to promoting social justice and respect for human rights, especially internationally recognized right to work, advancing the idea...

This study tests the assertion that membership growth in credit unions is constrained by their unique structural features, such as their non-profit mission and member-based ownership. Although these features enhance inclusiveness, existing theory suggest that they work against efficiency when...

The first chapter of this dissertation introduces the generalized minimum contrast estimator (GMC) with nonsmooth moment functions, which includes Empirical Likelihood, Exponential Tilting and Continuous Updating GMM as special cases. Based on empirical process theory, this chapter studies the...

Two oil price shocks changed the pattern of cheap oil. The first was the Arab embargo on oil exports in 1973. Oil prices rose five fold. In 1978, the second was the fall of Shah Iran. Prices soared to $80-$100 a barrel in today's prices. In 1960, OPEC was established and since then it has been a...