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Are there Diverging Time Trends in the Educational Attainment of Nationals and Second Generation Immigrants? / Unterscheiden sich die Trends in der Entwicklung des Bildungserfolges...
Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 225 (2005) 3, pp. 69-90
Summary The educational attainment of second generation immigrants is of crucial importance for their subsequent labor market success in Germany. While the schooling outcomes of Germans improved in recent decades, German-born children of immigrants did not partake in this development. The paper...
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Assimilation of Enterprise Information Systems: Knowledge Support from People and Systems
Sasidharan, Sharath; Santhanam, Radhika; Brass, Daniel - In: International Journal of Technology Diffusion (IJTD) 8 (2017) 1, pp. 18-32
Prior research has indicated that employees rely on their informal social network to acquire knowledge essential for assimilating new technologies into their work practices. This study investigates the role of the help desk and online help in providing knowledge support for individual users and...
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Supply chain innovation diffusion: going beyond adoption
Hazen, Benjamin T.; Overstreet, Robert E.; Cegielski, … - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 23 (2012) 1, pp. 119-134
stages of acceptance, routinization, and assimilation are often investigated, no study integrates these constructs and their … assimilation for the purpose of clarifying the definitions and identifying the dimensions of each construct to provide guidance to …
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Age and the pursuit of happiness among immigrants
Siemers, Sarinda Taengnoi; Robson, Denise - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 12, pp. 2052-2066
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how various factors, particularly ones associated with ability to assimilate to a new country such as social capital and human capital, may affect the happiness of immigrants in different age groups. Design/methodology/approach The study utilizes...
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The effects of comprehensive income on investors’ judgments
Du, Ning; Stevens, Kevin; McEnroe, John - In: Accounting Research Journal 28 (2015) 3, pp. 284-299
Purpose – This paper aims to understand the effects of different presentation formats on nonprofessional investors’ judgments. Both International Financial Reporting Standards and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles require an entity to present items of net income and other...
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Managing polarity, paradox, and dilemma during leader transition
Manderscheid, Steven V.; Freeman, Peter D. - In: European Journal of Training and Development 36 (2012) 9, pp. 856-872
with the terms transitions, adaptation, socialization, assimilation, polarity, paradox, dilemma, polarity thinking …
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Impact of frontline service employees’ acculturation behaviors on customer satisfaction and commitment in intercultural service encounters
Gaur, Sanjaya Singh; Sharma, Piyush; Herjanto, Halimin; … - In: Journal of Service Theory and Practice 27 (2017) 6, pp. 1105-1121
service employees (assimilation, separation, integration, and marginalization) on customer satisfaction and customer … in this study. SmartPLS3 was used to test all the hypotheses. Findings Assimilation and integration have positive effects …
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Fragil und prekär? Private Care-Arbeit in der Schweiz / Insecure and precarious? Private care work in Switzerland
Hettlage, Raphaela; Baghdadi, Nadia - In: Arbeit 22 (2013) 3, pp. 212-223
Abstract Als Folge der verstärkten Erwerbsorientierung und der demographischen Veränderungen werden individuelle Care-Verpflichtungen zunehmend ausgelagert und statt als Familienarbeit im Rahmen von marktlich organisierten Care-Arrangements bearbeitet. Die Care-Arbeiterinnen sind oftmals...
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Child Marriages in Rural Zimbabwe
Kurebwa, Jeffrey; Kurebwa, Nyasha Yvonne - In: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social … 5 (2018) 1, pp. 40-54
The objectives of this article was to understand the causes, effects and measures to reduce child marriages in rural Zimbabwe. Child marriages have serious social, economic, health and political implications on young girls and their communities. Young girls are also robbed of their locally and...
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Marriage as a Mechanism of Internalizing Externalities: A Case of Smoking
You, Jane J. - In: Asian Journal of Law and Economics 12 (2021) 2, pp. 189-211
Abstract With the view of marriage as a legal institution to internalize externalities, I examine the effect of … marriage on smoking. From analyzing the data of Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I found that unmarried individuals are more … likely to smoke by 4.9% point than married individuals with stronger impact on females. The long-run impact of marriage also …
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