Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag analysiert die Wirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems auf das Arbeitsangebot verheirateter Frauen. Er beruht auf einem umfassenden mikroanalytischen Simulationsmodell für Steuern, Sozialversicherungsbeiträge und Transfers für die Bundesrepublik...

Purpose – During multitasking, humans handle multiple tasks through task switching or engage in multitasking information behaviors. For example, a user switches between seeking new kitchen information and medical information. Recent studies provide insights these complex multitasking human...

Purpose – This paper characterizes translation as a task and aims to identify how it influences professional translators' information needs and use of resources to meet those needs. Design/methodology/approach – This research is exploratory and qualitative. Data are based on focus group...

Purpose – This paper aims to give a critical review of the empirical information seeking and retrieval (IS&R) literature focusing on learning related information behavior. It also aims to propose the task‐based approach to link research on learning and information behavior in learning tasks...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of a number of human individual differences on the web searching of a sample of the general public. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 91 members of the general public performed 195 controlled searches. Search activity and...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore health and lifestyle information seeking behaviour by examining the connection between purposive information seeking and information encountering. Design/methodology/approach – Data on purposive seeking and information encountering, gathered from postal...

Purpose – This paper aims to report an empirical study of the information‐related behaviour of emerging artists and designers. It also aims to add to understanding of the information behaviour of the group both as practising artists (a little understood category of information users), and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how the migration from the print world to the electronic environment has affected the motivations, attitudes and behaviours of researchers in scholarly communication. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of an...

Purpose – The functional equivalence hypothesis suggests that a new communication medium will replace those activities that most closely perform the same functions for users as did the established media. There is scarce empirical evidence whether use of the internet displaces use of the public...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate longitudinal features of an established social question-answering (Q&A) site to study how question-answer resources and other community features change over time. Design/methodology/approach – Statistical analysis and visualisation was...