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Customer loyalty towards brands within Botswana's petroleum industry

Mokabiri, Goabaone - 2009

The retail and distribution industry in Botswana's deregulated economy is one of the largest and most difficult sectors … in which to operate, mainly because of levels of competition amongst Botswana companies and the global competitive …

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Mit Sicherheit besser? : Aktivierung und Flexicurity in Dänemark

Bogedan, Claudia - 2005

Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik in Dänemark haben von Wissenschaft und Politik in den letzten Jahren große Aufmerksamkeit erhalten, da das kleine Land als erfolgreicher Wohlfahrtsstaatsmodernisierer gilt. Das dänische Beschäftigungswunder wird dabei als Gegenentwurf zu einer Politik...

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Social Security, Differential Fertility, and the Dynamics of the Earnings Distribution

Zhao, Kai - 2009

Economists and demographers have long argued that fertility differs by income (differential fertility), and that social security creates incentives for people to rear fewer children. Does the effect of social security on fertility differ by income? How does social security change the...

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Social security reform with imperfect substitution between less and more experienced workers

Rojas Blaya, Juan Alberto - 2008

In this paper we study the quantitative properties of a policy reform aimed at funding the pension system in the standard model economy with perfect substitution across workers with different experience levels and a model economy where this substitutability is imperfect. With compulsory...

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The dynamic effect of public expenditure shocks in the United States

Párraga Rodríguez, Susana - 2016

Este trabajo estima el efecto agregado dinámico de shocks exógenos a dos componentes clave del gasto público en Estados Unidos, las transferencias de renta y el gasto gubernamental en bienes y servicios. La estrategia de identificación instrumenta los shocks estructurales al gasto público...

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A day with Dr. Peter F. Drucker: business and management, volume XV, tape II

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand)

During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "From Counting to Measurements" he discusses accounting and measurement. During his lecture, he talks about: activity based accounting, the Coca-Cola Company and independent bottlers, automobile companies, the cluster concept, Procter & Gamble and Sam...

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The Moral High Ground: Differentials Among Executive Directors of Canadian Nonprofits

Handy, Femida; Mook, Laurie; Ginieniewicz, Jorge; … - 2007

There is a considerable literature, albeit inconclusive, on whether workers in the nonprofit sector are paid less than their counterparts in the private and public sectors. For example, a large national study in the U.S. showed positive and negative differentials for some occupations and...

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The Interchangeability of Paid Staff and Volunteers in Nonprofit Organizations

Handy, Femida; Mook, Laurie; Quarter, Jack - 2008

This article examines the interchangeability of paid and volunteer labor. It reports on estimates and prevalence of such interchangeability through a series of studies of Canadian nonprofits: two national surveys of nonprofit organizations and case studies of two hospitals. The first study found...

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Webcast of Flexible Work Arrangements and Low-Wage Work

Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center - 2009

Webcast of "Flexible Work Arrangements and Low-Wage Work," a briefing held on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, and presented by Workplace Flexibility 2010 and the New America Foundation.Panelists presented "the latest research on scheduling challenges faced by low-wage workers, [. . .] common sense...

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Modelling the policy challenges confronting globalising developing countries

Karunaratne, Neil Dias - 2008

countries. The overriding objective of promoting the globalization of developing countries is to reduce poverty and income … latest wave of globalization has bucked the past trend of increasing poverty and income inequality in developing countries … structural malaise that traps them in a vicious circle of poverty. They advocate the radical reshaping of the international …

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