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The Uneven Court Floors in the NBA: Race and Employment Stability
Research examining racial disparities in the labor market has recognized Black-White gaps in earnings and various career outcomes. However, relatively little attention has been given to the potential discrepancy in employment stability across races ...
Di Shao
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Fixed-Term and Permanent Employment Contracts: Theory and Evidence [PDF]
This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment with ex-ante identical workers and employers.
Enchuan Shao, Pedro Silos, Shutao Cao
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Platform Business Model Innovation for Sustainability: A Framework for Industry 5.0 Integration
ABSTRACT A comprehensive framework is developed for adopting Platform Business Model Innovation (PBMI) to enhance sustainable performance in the Industry 5.0 (I5.0) era. While PBMI plays a growing role in corporate transformation, tensions persist between profit‐driven objectives and broader sustainability imperatives.
Mohamed Ashmel Mohamed Hashim +3 more
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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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Addressing Labor Market Duality in Croatia. A Single Employment Contract? [PDF]
Most of the newly created jobs in Croatia are temporary jobs. This contributes to labor market duality: the growing divide between employees with secure, permanent jobs (referred to as insiders) and those with precarious, temporary jobs (referred to as outsiders). Dual labor market is inefficient from both the social and economic perspective.
Tomić, Iva +1 more
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ABSTRACT The transition to a circular economy (CE) remains hindered by the lack of practical strategies that simultaneously secure competitiveness and deliver sustainability outcomes for manufacturing organisations. While circular design is often cited as a cornerstone of CE, its concrete role in driving competitive advantage and organisational ...
Shamaila Ishaq +3 more
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Flexibility vs. rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both worlds? [PDF]
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts.
Gilles Saint Paul
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ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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Traditional Communities as "Subjects of Rights" and the Commoditization of Knowledge in Brazil
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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ABSTRACT Rapid technological change, shorter lifecycles and rising demand for electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) are increasing waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and emphasise the need for a circular economy. This paper identifies barriers and enablers of the circular transition in EEE and outlines interventions.
Aya Abdelmeguid, Lucia Corsini
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