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Foreign outsourcing, labour demand and the choice of functional form [PDF]

Elasticity of the demand for low-skilled and high-skilled labour in the European Union with respect to foreign outsourcing is estimated, using alternative flexible cost functions.
Michel Dumont
core  

Consciousness Multiplied

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is generally assumed that an ordinary human brain is associated with a single mind. Indeed, this assumption is so deeply rooted that it is rarely articulated explicitly, let alone questioned. However, as philosophers of mind have increasingly noticed, it turns out to rest on alarmingly shaky ground.
James H. McIntyre
wiley   +1 more source

Framing Decolonization: Case Study of the Pan‐Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers the relationship between formal policy discourse and dynamics of decolonization. Initiatives of decolonization implicate the political status of Indigenous peoples, wherein peoples can be understood as agents or dependents within the state.
River Doxtator, Jennifer Wallner, Lydia Zhou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating gender and creative work in Shanghai's music industry: female creative workers' career choices and development. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Yang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Living the everyday of dementia friendliness: Navigating care in public spaces. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn, 2022
Brittain K, Degnen C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Regulatory Context and Bureaucratic Policy Making: Illustrations From Payment System Regulation in Brazil

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad, Lauro Emilio Gonzalez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

What was really wrong (and right) with vitalism? Methodological naturalism, organicism and immaterialist theories in biology. [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci
Boucher SC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Arduous business: Immaterial labour in the Victorian realist novel

, 2020
Arduous Business explores representations of immaterial labour in the Victorian realist novel. By “immaterial labour,” I mean labour that has economic and social value, but that does not fall within countable hours or produce tangible goods. The category includes the mysteriously profitable stock-broking of Anthony Trollope’s speculator villains, and ...
openaire   +1 more source

Seriality and style: The embodiment, perception, and normalization of collectives

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Within existential phenomenology, both seriality and style have been drawn on to theorize the embodiment and perceptibility of (social) ontological differences. While style refers to how we encounter the world and others not in the abstract, but as immediately and intuitively meaningful, seriality is a form of collective being that pertains to
Tris Hedges
wiley   +1 more source

The nature of AI: Metabolism, energy, water, labour and justice in the urban political ecology of artificial intelligence. [PDF]

Urban Polit Ecol
Cugurullo F, Caprotti F, Day J, Geoghegan S, Lynch CR, Menga F, Robinson C, Williams J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source