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Just another cog in the machine? A worker‐level view of robotization and tasks

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract Technological change has led to a decline in the share of routine and physical jobs, and a rise in the share of abstract and social ones at the economy level. However, much less is known about how these trends unfold at the individual level. Do workers' tasks become more or less routine and physical?
Milena Nikolova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce provide financing for the growth of the financial sector, as has been claimed, but the risk of
Carolyn Sissoko, Mina Ishizu
wiley   +1 more source

China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Streets to Tables: Bottom-Up Co-creation Case Studies for Healthier Food Environments in Vietnam and Nigeria. [PDF]

open access: yesCurr Dev Nutr
Even B   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the work governance divide: Pluralism and performance

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article introduces a new direction of studies that looks at the Workplace of the Future through enlarged interdisciplinary lenses. This article bridges the divide between different traditions – human resource management, industrial relations and economic democracy – arguing theoretically and demonstrating empirically their complementarity
Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fake reviews in the ‘here and now’: Psychological distance and falsified online reviews

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a growing popularity of consumer reviews on online platforms that is attached to an increase in the pervasiveness of falsified online reviews. The key aim of this study is to provide insights into how falsified online reviews are created by exploring the perceptions of the psychological distance of the creators of falsified reviews ...
Lloyd C. Harris, Doga Istanbulluoglu
wiley   +1 more source

Slowly getting there: a review of country experience on estimating emissions and removals from forest degradation. [PDF]

open access: yesCarbon Balance Manag
Neeff T   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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