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The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre‐industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in medieval England. We find that whilst some workers enjoyed substantial growth in wage rates after the Black Death, there was a large group who ...
Jordan Claridge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caring organizational cultures and the future of work

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract There is substantial evidence that workplaces of the future will be dominated by an increase in advanced technology. This trend might lead to the objectification and dehumanization of employees and other stakeholders who interact with organizations as impersonal operations and procedures become normative and employees are subordinated to ...
Alan M. Saks, Jamie A. Gruman
wiley   +1 more source

Os conceitos na história: considerações sobre o anacronismo

open access: yesLer História, 2017
The article discusses the issue of anachronism in historical writing, considering both types of discourse that this one deals with: the historian’s language and the language that comes out directly from sources and each historical epoch.
José d’Assunção Barros
doaj   +1 more source

Missed opportunities to prevent HIV acquisition with pre‐exposure prophylaxis: A mixed methods study of people with recently acquired HIV in the United Kingdom

open access: yesHIV Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives To explore missed opportunities for PrEP use among people with recently acquired HIV in the United Kingdom. Methods Data were derived from CASCADE, an international, longitudinal, mixed‐methods study of adults (≥16 years) with recently acquired HIV (≤12 months).
Argyro Karakosta   +145 more
wiley   +1 more source

To Grandmother's House We Go: Informal Childcare and Female Labor Mobility

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We document how childcare costs and the location of extended family influence the labor supply and mobility of US women. Women return to their home locations immediately before fertility events, suggesting that informal childcare needs may motivate home migration. Women who live near their parents have lower child earnings penalties.
Garrett Anstreicher, Joanna Venator
wiley   +1 more source

Logic of gauge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The logic of gauge theory is considered by tracing its development from general relativity to Yang-Mills theory, through Weyl's two gauge theories. A handful of elements---which for want of better terms can be called \emph{geometrical justice}, \emph ...
Afriat, Alexander
core   +1 more source

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