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/methodology/approach The research adopts a mixed approach to address the prospects and challenges of establishing an Islamic Retail bank in … Mauritius. Findings The research finds that there are various prospects for an Islamic retail bank in Mauritius for Muslims and … Islamic retail bank in Mauritius face various challenges. Some of these challenges are lack of Sharīʿah-compliant liquidity …
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association between the level of change and size of the organization. There was an increase in the use of teleworking and layoffs … managers reported that the most evident changes in the future will be associated with the use of technology, teleworking, and …
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We analyze the welfare effects of part-day teleworking on road traffic congestion in the context of Vickrey's dynamic … bottleneck model. Endogenous decisions to become equipped with a teleworking-enabling technology change the scheduling of arrival … even costless teleworking might be marginally welfare reducing, after reaching the optimal penetration level, as an …
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The potential transformation of labour markets by the emergence of online labour platforms has triggered an intense academic, media and policy debate, but its true scale remains speculation. Nevertheless, adequate policy responses hinge on a good understanding of dynamics - something that will...
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This paper examines how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be used to address procedural problems faced by platform workers, including opaque rating systems, arbitrary account suspension and nonpayment, and uncommunicative clients and platform operators. GDPR provides workers with...
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Verkehr einzusparen war immer schon ein Grund für die Entwicklung und Anwendung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien. Aber warum nehmen Verkehr und Staus beim gegenwärtigen Ausbau dieser ständig verbesserten Technologien weiter zu? Zwölf Gründe für dieses paradoxe Ergebnis...
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Die Möglichkeiten der digitalen Vernetzung und standortunabhängigen Kommunikation in der Arbeitswelt lassen eine zunehmende Bedeutung von Homeoffice erwarten. Dabei sind die Chancen auf einen Homeofficezugang unter Beschäftigten ungleich verteilt. Bei der Erklärung dieser Chancenungleichheit...
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This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is commonly included in economic models. The second,...
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Based on well-known evidence on labor supply elasticities, several authors have concluded that women should be taxed at … lower rates than men. We evaluate the quantitative implications of taxing women at a lower rate than men. Relative to the …
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Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force …. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … to change asymmetrically for women versus men. …
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