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Sustainable Development in the British and Russian Linguacultures: A Case Study of Non-Financial Reports

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
The study presents the comparative analysis of the verbal and non-verbal means representing the concept of sustainable development/sustainability based on the data of non-financial reports of British companies in English as well as Russian companies both
Irina L. Lebedeva, Kseniya V. Makarova
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The Costs and Benefits of Informality [PDF]

We explore the costs and benefits of informality associated with the informal sector lying outside the tax regime in a two-sector New Keynesian model.
Emanuela Lotti, Nicoletta Batini, Paul Levine   +2 more
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From private value to multidimensional impact: asymmetries in the measurement of innovation between the global North and the Global South

Cadernos Cajuína
Although innovation is critical to economic development, its measurement in emerging markets remains a theoretical and practical challenge, given the difficulty of capturing context-specific features with conventional metrics.
Sofia França Vieira, Bruno Eduardo Freitas Honorato, Antonio Carlos dos Santos, Rafael Antunes Fidelis   +3 more
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Informative Features for Model Comparison

, 2018
Accepted to NIPS ...
Jitkrittum, Wittawat, Kanagawa, Heishiro, Sangkloy, Patsorn, Hays, James, Schölkopf, Bernhard, Gretton, Arthur   +5 more
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The Romantic Ethic in Outreach Work

Sociétés et Jeunesses en Difficulté, 2010
This article focuses on Norwegian outreach youth workers. To deal with the challenges involved in street work and other aspects of their daily work, youth workers rely on practical knowledge acquired in and through practice. As a corollary of this, youth
Erik Henningsen
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Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Presence of Informal Labour Markets [PDF]

How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy? To answer this question we construct a two-sector, formal-informal new Keynesian closed-economy.
Batini, Nicoletta, Levine, Paul, Lotti, Emanuela, Yang, Bo   +3 more
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Informal workers across Europe : evidence from 30 European countries [PDF]

The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment in 30 countries, focusing on employees without contracts and on informal self-employed workers (who are distinguished from formal workers).
Hazans, Mihails
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Russian style of flexibility: Essay of new forms of labour and subordination in the human services [PDF]

Социологический журнал, 2007
The paper aims to demonstrate that key-features of the global “new capitalism” – social insecurity, precariousness, uncertainty and isolation are present in the Russian labor relationships.
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The (Lack of) Salience of T/V Pronouns in Professional Communication: Evidence from an Experimental Study for Belgian Dutch

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In their quest to find a suitable tone of voice in an informalizing society, many companies are confronted with the choice of using T or V pronouns in their B2C communications.
Laura Rosseel, Eline Zenner, Fabian Faviana, Bavo Van Landeghem   +3 more
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Informal Labour and Credit Markets: A Survey [PDF]

This paper reviews the literature on the informal economy, focusing first on empirical findings and then on existing approaches to modelling informality within both partial and general equilibrium environments. We concentrate on labour and credit markets,
Emanuela Lotti, Nicoletta Batini, Paul Levine, Young-Bae Kim   +3 more
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