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Intrastate Truck Driver Pay and Safety: A Longitudinal Analysis
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Truck drivers, their employers, and the public bear the costs of large truck crashes. Prior research finds that truck drivers tend to have fewer crashes when they are paid more, yet much of the U.S. industry operates with low pay and high turnover.
Kevin Conner +2 more
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the 2010 crisis, the Portuguese government enacted several reforms to its prescription drug reimbursement system. As a result, value added per pharmacist in pharmacies fell by a third. We use longitudinal records from Quadros de Pessoal (QP), merged with collective bargaining data and firm financial records, to study the impacts of the ...
David Card +2 more
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why and to what extent do union members differ from non‐members in attitudes toward women's employment? This study argues that a masculinized conception of work has historically underpinned gender antagonism in trade unionism, and that the rise of right‐wing populism may have hindered recent progress toward gender equality among union members.
Jianxuan Lei
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“We Nudists Lead a Double Life”: The Double Life of Enrico S. Molnar
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nudism, the social practice of being nude in community, has long been a site of curiosity and suspicion. Various authors have commented on the “double life” that a nudist leads, one wherein the nudist hides the nudist part of their lives from the non‐nudists around them.
Jonathan A. Allan
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Eurocrats Wanted: Why Some Member States Lag in European Commission Recruitment
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The article investigates the underrepresentation of certain member states within the European Commission (EC) and explores the broader challenges of achieving geographical balance in European Union (EU) recruitment. Drawing on the theory of representative bureaucracy, the study systematises factors that shape the attractiveness of EU careers ...
Jarolím Antal +2 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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The Evolution of Interest‐Rate Models: From the Yield Curve to the Swaption Cube
Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Interest‐rate modelling is often taught as a catalogue of competing stochastic equations, obscuring why models were created and why modern sell‐side desks use several simultaneously. This survey reorganises the field around five layers of a pricing architecture: curve construction; arbitrage‐free dynamics; volatility‐smile representation ...
Xuan Feng +2 more
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Priests Posing for a Photo at the Clergy Homecoming
Priests pose for a group photo at the clergy homecoming held in Klein ...
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Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
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Precarious Employment, Individualization Processes, and Professional Cyclists in France
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between the experience of precarious employment and individualization processes. Drawing from the historical‐sociological approach of Norbert Elias, we explain how and why individualization processes advanced in France over the course of several centuries and how this shaped the employment experiences of ...
John Connolly, Mojca Doupona
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