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Purpose This paper aims to provide a conceptual understanding of the drivers and outcomes of actor opportunism in the … current research introduces a conceptual framework of opportunism in the sharing economy with seven underlying propositions …. The framework posits a U-shaped moderating effect of social capital for the relationship between opportunism and its …
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Poverty dynamics and the ability of the Italian welfare system to reduce poverty are investigated by using the 1991 …
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While unemployment has been the common experience of OECD countries over the last three decades, there have also been significant differences in its severity and extent. These differences were characterised in the 1990s as a “trade‐off” between unemployment and wage inequality. According...
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Government’s long‐term aim is to build on this experience and create a “work‐based welfare state” for all those of working age …
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The authors demonstrate that the Bible and Talmud provide many insights as to how employers ought to manage human resources. Issues discussed include employee theft, motivation (providing an honest day’s work and providing employees with meaningful and dignified work), compensation (paying...
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critique of welfare economics and his concern with underdevelopment and poverty. It is argued that Sen has done a great deal to … rescue welfare economics from the consequences of methodological individualism by seeking an objective basis for comparisons …
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production tax on the overall welfare of a tourism economy. The two frameworks are linked via the relative price of tourism based … likelihood of enhancing welfare or to minimize the risk of reducing efficiency. Originality/value This paper argues that those …
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A recurrent concern of researchers who measure the cost of protection is that welfare estimates based on models with …
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Proposes a model which shows that Stackelberg competition is not necessarily welfare‐ enhancing compared with Cournot … than Cournot. Derives conditions under which in this framework Stackelberg competition leads to lower expected welfare, in …
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functional requirements of large‐scale welfare provision. Britain provides perhaps the best example of this issue being settled … requirement, with the economic welfare of communities being equated to total welfare. The adoption of a postmodernist stance … economic welfare is not necessarily the same as the maximisation of total welfare. Postmodernist arguments are used in this …
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