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Lueger, Guenter (contributor); Korn, Hans-Peter (contributor) - Rainer Hampp Verlag

The Solution-Focused Approach developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg has been well established across many areas of society. In this book, the practical uses of solution-focused work in companies and management are shown. By means of conceptual contributions, as well as many case...

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Managing knowledge integration : balancing professional and managerial logics in an engineering consulting firm

Ollila, Susanne; Styhre, Alexander; Werr, Andreas - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 29 (2015) 2, pp. 131-148

based on the incompatibility of the two logics. Based on a study of knowledge integration in an engineering consulting firm …

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Gender and the Consulting Academic Economist

Del Rossi, Alison F. - 2020

We surveyed academic economists on their experiences and perceptions of legal consulting. Nearly two-thirds have … consulting experience and 40 percent have consulted within the last five years. Base hourly rates average $244, with a median of …

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Do consulting services affect audit quality? Evidence from the workforce

Fedyk, Anastassia; Fedyk, Tatiana; Hodson, James; … - 2023

This paper investigates how consulting services affect audit quality, from the perspective of knowledge and expertise … employees at large U.S. public accounting firms, we document a positive effect of consulting employees on audit quality …. Specifically, a one-standard-deviation increase in the share of consulting employees in an office results in a 2.7 percentage point …

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Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates

Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Focussing on recent UK graduates, a wage gap of 12% is found. The unexplained component of the gap is small and a large fraction of the gap can be explained by subject choice, job characteristics, motivation and expectation variables. Motivation and expectations account for 44% of the explained...

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Fly Me to the Moon: The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK

Heineck, Guido; Schwarze, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK. Although differing in labor market regulations, moonlighting is a persistent phenomenon in both countries. Using panel data from the BHPS and the SOEP, reduced form participation equations are estimated for male...

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Trabalho Operário e Novas Tecnologias de Produção: Alguns resultados de investigações internacionais

Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

In the last two decades (70 and 80) there took place an intensive controversy in the field of Industrial and Work Sociology. There the topic of the study object of this scientific discipline is again discussed. This controversy, however, has a relatively different sense in comparison with the...

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Towards a Transnational Analysis of the Political Economy of Care

Williams, Fiona - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2011

The resurgence of the employment of domestic and care workers in private homes in many industrialised countries over the last two decades has been shaped by important social changes, most notable among this are the increased responsibilities and rights of women across the globe to be both...

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Macroeconomic Policy, Wage Setting and Employment - What Difference Does the EMU Make?

Calmfors, Lars - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 1998

The likely impact of the EMU on the variability and level of employment is analysed. The major conclusions are: (1) Although an inflation-target regime will constrain monetary policy of a non-participant in the EMU, it still leaves considerable scope for exchange rate chages in the case of...

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State Earned Income Tax Credits and Participation in Regular and Informal Work

Gunter, Samara Potter - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2010

I use variation in state EITCs between 1997-2005 to identify changes in informal and regular labor supply by unmarried men and women with children. Men’s participation in the informal sector declines by 6 percentage points if a state EITC increases by 10% of the federal credit. Usual...

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