Abstract In the name of combating COVID-19, many countries have enacted laws that restrict citizens’ freedom of movement and freedom to operate businesses. These laws attempt to use the expressive effects of law and legal sanctions to make people conform to legal norms different from...

Purpose Previous studies on non-standard employment relations have analyzed how firms’ use of non-standard work arrangements are explained by variables related to numerical flexibility. Here, the purpose of this paper is to explore how firms respond to changes in the external environment...

Abstract Die leitende Fragestellung dieses Beitrags ist, inwieweit die materielle und institutionell-rechtliche Teilhabe, die ideell mit dem Leitbild des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses verknüpft wird, auch für atypische Beschäftigungsformen gilt. Dies wird anhand der zentralen Dimensionen...

Social class lies at the core of much that Marx said about the “laws of history.” Class conflict was to be the means whereby capitalism would be overthrown, superseded by a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat and, subsequently, by a communist society in which alienation and...

A number of studies have examined the relationship between tax collection and various demographic variables. However, until recently most of those studies have involved a United States sample population. The Internal Revenue Service provides demographic data for researchers on a regular basis....

Past consumer socialization research suggests that differences in the consumption patterns of children from dissimilar socioeconomic backgrounds can be attributed to differences in their consumer skills. We suggest, however that children’s consumer environments rather than deficiencies in...

This article investigates social class, income and gender effects on the importance of utilitarian and subjective evaluative decision criteria over a variety of products considered more and less socially significant. Variations in attitude, motivation and value orientations associated with...

It is well established that consumers employ purchase criteria that can be characterized as either more functionally oriented or more expressively oriented, depending on the category and situation. However, the literature review revealed a lack of clarity as to how (and if) social class...

The past decade has witnessed increased commercial use of data obtained unobtrusively from large‐scale geodemographic (GD) systems. However, consumer researchers have paid little attention to the potential of geodemography. Capitalizes on the fact that geodemography and Warnerian social class...