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The Changing Use of Contingent Pay at the Modern British Workplace

Bryson, Alex; Pendleton; A.; Whitfield; K. - National Institute of Economic and Social Research - 2008

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show how employers have changed their usage of contingent pay schemes over the last quarter century. We find workplaces are more likely to use collective forms of pay system than they did in the past, and they are more likely to use...

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On bivariate geometric distribution

K.; Mundassery, Davis Antony - In: Statistica 67 (2007) 4, pp. 389-404

Characterizations of bivariate geometric distribution using univariate and bivariate geometric compounding are obtained. Autoregressive models with marginals as bivariate geometric distribution are developed. Various bivariate geometric distributions analogous to important bivariate exponential...

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Measuring Spillovers from Alternative Forms of Foreign Investment

Rambaldi, A. N.; Iyer; K. - Econometric Society - 2004

Much of the endogenous growth literature has dwelled on evaluating the spillover effects of trade on growth, but much less efforts have been directed towards tracing and quantifying the spillover effects of foreign investments. This paper, in incorporating the effects of various types of foreign...

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Single mothers in various living arrangements: Differences in economic and time resources

Folk, Fox; K. - Institute for Research on Poverty, University of …

The economic status of single mothers with dependent children has recently been shown to vary greatly according to their living arrangements, a finding with implications for poverty policy and welfare reform. The economic and time resources of single mothers in various living arrangements were...

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Conflict at Work: The Pattern of Disputes in Britain since 1980

Forth, John; Dix; G.; Sisson; K. - National Institute of Economic and Social Research - 2008

The past quarter century in Britain has seen a concurrent decline in collective expressions of conflict and growth in the individualised expression of conflict, most transparently manifest in a dramatic fall in the incidence of strikes and a rising tide of claims to the Employment Tribunal. This...

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Information search in pension plan decisions

K. - In: Applied Economics Letters 20 (2013) 18, pp. 1648-1650

This study empirically investigates consumer information search behaviour with respect to supplemental employer-based and private pension plans. The analysis shows that households collect as much information from their social environment as from experts. Regarding the dissemination of...

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The Market Microstructure of Central Bank Intervention

Dominguez; K. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 1997

One of the great unknowns in international finance is the process by which new information influences exchange rate behavior. Until recently, data constraints have limited our ability to examine this issue. The Olsen and Associates high-frequency spot market data greatly expand the range of...

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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (I): The Process of Capitalist Production

Marx, Karl - Department of Economics, McMaster University

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Capital: An Abridged Edition

Marx, Karl - Oxford University Press

twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. Millions of readers this century have treated … economics, Marx's great work depicts the unfolding of industrial capitalism as a tragic drama - with a message which has lost … all of Volume 1, which Marx himself published in 1867, excerpts from a new translation of `The Result of the Immediate …

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Value, Price, and Profit (Abridged): An Introduction to the Theory of Capitalism

Marx, Karl - In: VALUE, CAPITALIST DYNAMICS, AND MONEY

Marx's 1865 lectures offer an easily accessible summary of his theory, addressed to an English-speaking audience … John Weston. This abridged version stays with the exact words used by Marx, while eliminating almost all reference to the … result is more readable and modern, yet completely faithful to Marx's presentation. (Also on-line at www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~zarembka/Marx.htm) …

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