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Employment arrangements and well-being of migrant live-in care workers: Evidence from a study of Polish live-ins in Berlin

sozialpolitik.ch
This paper is the first to provide generalizable estimates on the economic and subjective well-being of 24-hour migrant care workers (“live-ins”) by type of work arrangement.
Lena Hipp, Sandra Leumann, Ulrich Kohler
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The optimal legal retirement age in an OLG model with endogenous labour supply [PDF]

The long run welfare implications of the legal retirement age are studied in a perfect foresight overlapping-generations model where agents live for two periods.
Hansen, Casper Worm, Lønstrup, Lars
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E-work and IT for developing rural areas in Hungary [PDF]

, 2007
Information Technologies (IT) are a powerful driver for economy-wide productivity, growth and jobs – and are arguably Europe’s best-bet investment for the future. They give great potential to transform the way in which we work, live and interact.
Eckert, Bálint, Herdon, Miklós
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Seeking out the spaces between: Using improvisation for collaborative composition and interactive technology [PDF]

, 2010
Copyright © 2010 ISASTThis article presents findings from experiments into piano performance live electronics undertaken by the author since early 2007.
Nicolls, S
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Inequality, Environmental Protection and Growth [PDF]

We analyze how, in representative democracies, income distribution influences the stringency of environmental policy and economic growth. Individuals (who differ in abilities) live for two periods, working when young and owning capital when old ...
Laura Marsiliani, Thomas Renstrom
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Fragmented (working) lives [PDF]

, 2008
The paper considers Richard Sennett’s (1998)\ud claims about the ways in which the traits of\ud contemporary capitalism have impacted on\ud personal and professional lives of people. It\ud examines some of the main themes such as\ud reduction of working lives, pressure on personal\ud lives, emphasis on youth, devaluation of\ud experience, demise of ...
Stoyanova Russell, Dimitrinka, Grugulis, Irena   +1 more
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DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC INFLUENCES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF FOOD SAFETY IN FOOD SHOPPING [PDF]

The perceived importance of food safety is instrumental in the success of consumer information programs to promote public health and to market safer foods. This paper examines how the belief of a household's main meal planner about the importance of food
Lin, Chung-Tung Jordan
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Ten principles relevant to health research among Indigenous Australian populations [PDF]

As committed Indigenous health researchers in Australia, these researchers aim to provide the answers to key questions relating to health that might enable Indigenous Australians to live the lives that they would choose to live. Working with Indigenous
Lisa M. Jamieson
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Working Consumers: The Next Step in Marketing Theory? [PDF]

In marketing and consumer research, consumers have been increasingly theorised as producers. However, these theorisations do not take all facets of consumers’ productive role into account.
Cova, Bernard, Dalli, Daniele
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"Killing spillage": an algorithm to reduce microphone spillage and improve phase coherence. [PDF]

Since the earliest days of multi-microphone live recording, the problem of spillage has dogged the sound engineer. Numerous strategies have evolved including microphone placement, acoustic screening, gating and phase inversion.
Paterson, Justin
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