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Tenure and Experience Effects on Wages: A Theory [PDF]
This paper investigates equilibria in a labor market where firms post wage/tenure contracts and risk-averse workers, both employed and unemployed, search for better paid job opportunities. Different firms typically offer different contracts.
Ken Burdett, Melvyn Coles
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European Ports as Energy Hubs: A Sustainability Index to Assess Territorial Development
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The capacity of ports to act as energy hubs is increasingly relevant in light of sustainability challenges and global crises like the Ukraine conflict, the COVID‐19 pandemic and energy scarcity. Numerous international and national initiatives are shaping the future of port development to address environmental and economic concerns.
Paolo Mazzocchi +3 more
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Going on the Long Race? - Employment Duration and (De)Regulation of Experimental Stochastic Labor Markets [PDF]
If the future market wage is uncertain, engaging in long-term employment is risky, with the risk depending on how regulated the labor market is. In our experiment long-term employment can result either from offering long-term contracts or from repeatedly
Sabrina Bleich +2 more
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Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2008 [PDF]
, 2009 [Excerpt] Overall labor market conditions deteriorated markedly in 2008 following the onset of the recession in December 2007. Although individuals in all race and ethnicity groups experienced labor market difficulties, labor market problems for blacks ...
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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A Natural Resource‐Based View of Circular Economy Practices in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pharmaceutical industry is facing escalating environmental sustainability issues including gaseous emissions, waste generation, and excessive consumption of energy and non‐renewable materials. Nevertheless, the adoption of sustainable business models such as the circular economy (CE) is still in its infancy in this sector due to complex ...
Amna Farrukh, Muhammad Sohaib Sajjad
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Credit Rationing, Wealth Inequality, and Allocation of Talent [PDF]
We study an economy where agents are heterogeneous in terms of observable wealth and unobservable talent. Adverse selection forces creditors to ask for collateral.
Maitreesh Ghatak +2 more
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Optimal Coexistence of Long-term and Short-term contracts in Labor Markets [PDF]
, 2011 JEL numbers: D86, C78 We consider a market where firms hire workers to run their projects and such projects differ in profitability. At any period, each firm needs two workers to suc- cessfully run its project: a junior agent, with no specific skills, and a senior worker, whose effort is not verifiable.
Inés Macho-Stadler +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is strong evidence that design for remanufacturing (DfRem) can reduce initial‐design carbon emissions by up to 30%, and that product design can critically affect remanufacturing feasibility, yet academic adoption of DfRem remains limited.
Okechukwu Okorie +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The agri‐food industry faces major sustainability challenges, requiring a shift in companies' approach. Circular economy principles offer a promising path by enhancing resource efficiency, reducing waste, and valorizing by‐products. However, the integration of sustainability and circularity practices remains limited, especially in developing ...
Maria Elena Latino +2 more
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Traditional Communities as "Subjects of Rights" and the Commoditization of Knowledge in Brazil
International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2015 The International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 169 and the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) led signatory state-members to recognize traditional communities as subjects of rights, and no longer as objects of tutelage.
Noemi M. Porro +2 more
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