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INSTITUTIONAL GLOBALIZATION AS A SYSTEM OF INTEGRATION THE PHENOMENON OF THE POSTMODERN DEVELOPMENT

open access: yesAntropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2015
Purpose. Institutionalism is gaining strength as a dominant point of view on the world. Its philosophical basis is the postulate of the uncertainty of the development, which comes to replace the neoclassical certainty characteristic of industrial society.
V. V. Zinchenko
doaj   +1 more source

Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental, Social, and Governance in Family Firms: A Bibliometric Review and Agenda for Future Research

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) engagement and family firms. Drawing from mainstream databases, it identifies and analyzes 34 pivotal articles. Research on ESG and family firms is still emerging, but inconsistent findings and paradoxes obscure the field.
ChangYi Zhu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

David Marsden's Comparative and Theoretical Craft: Signposts to a Better World of Work

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT David Marsden enriched and extended the field of employment relations with his interdisciplinary and comparative practice. This introduction to the special issue honouring his work examines the nature of David's contribution and analyses his influence on employment relations and adjacent fields.
Sarah Ashwin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Labor Market and Home Production: Are Men and Women Equal?

open access: yesRevista Estudos Feministas, 2010
Female labor market participation is one of the central investigation topics in feminist economics’ studies. Even after an increase in the labor market participation and the decrease in the wage gap between men and women, the latter still face great ...
Regina Madalozzo   +2 more
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Envisioning the Future of Work: From Ideas to Reforms

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Two different theoretical perspectives concerning technology and the future of work are examined. One is linked to mainstream economics, whereas the other is associated with critical (‘post‐work’) discourse. Ideas about work—its nature and impacts on well‐being—matter in both perspectives.
David A. Spencer
wiley   +1 more source

Frisch Elasticity, Directed Technical Change, and Automation: A Unified Framework for Wage Polarization and Skill Premium Dynamics

open access: yesBulletin of Economic Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how labor‐supply responsiveness, captured by the inverse Frisch elasticity, shapes wage inequality in the presence of directed technical change and automation. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with task‐based production, heterogeneous labor, and endogenous R&D.
Óscar Afonso
wiley   +1 more source

Economic activity during extreme events

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Although extreme weather events, natural disasters or infrastructure failures potentially have important economic effects, quantifying these effects over small areas and fine time intervals has been difficult because of the fairly coarse scales available in most data sources. This paper surveys the use of relatively new and finely grained data
John W. Galbraith
wiley   +1 more source

How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
wiley   +1 more source

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