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The Value of Self-Employment to Ethnic Minorities
Work, Employment and Society, 2019 It is sometimes argued that ethnic minorities have a cultural predisposition towards self-employment. However, this is generally not the preferred option for minority groups.
M. Brynin, M. Karim, Wouter Zwysen
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Time after time – circadian clocks through the lens of oscillator theory
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Oscillator theory bridges physics and circadian biology. Damped oscillators require external drivers, while limit cycles emerge from delayed feedback and nonlinearities. Coupling enables tissue‐level coherence, and entrainment aligns internal clocks with environmental cues.
Marta del Olmo +2 more
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African Americans' Pursuit of Self-Employment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 We examine causes of black/white gaps in self-employment entry rates in the United States by recognizing that industry context heavily shapes impacts of owner resource endowments on the likelihood of successful entry. Barriers to entry, briefly stated, are high in some lines of business and low in others.
Lofstrom, Magnus, Bates, Timothy
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Self-Employment and Economic Mobility [PDF]
, 2008 Describes how self-employment may affect mobility differently from wage or salary employment. Reviews research showing how diverse self-employed workers' intragenerational mobility may differ by education, family background, race/ethnicity, and ...
Hal Salzman, Signe-Mary McKernan
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Paying for Free Delivery: Dependent Self-Employment as a Measure of Precarity in Parcel Delivery
Work, Employment and Society, 2018 This article explores supply chain pressures in parcel delivery and how the drive to contain costs to ‘preserve value in motion’, including the costs of failed delivery, underpins contractual differentiation. It focuses on owner-drivers and home couriers
S. Moore, K. Newsome
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Cryptochrome and PAS/LOV proteins play intricate roles in circadian clocks where they act as both sensors and mediators of protein–protein interactions. Their ubiquitous presence in signaling networks has positioned them as targets for small‐molecule therapeutics. This review provides a structural introduction to these protein families.
Eric D. Brinckman +2 more
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Self-employment among the Armed Forces Community [PDF]
, 2018 The Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick, QinetiQ and X-Forces Enterprise were commissioned by Forces in Mind Trust to understand what more could be done to support the Armed Forces Community in pursuing self-employment and ...
Barnes, Sally-Anne +6 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Bone metastasis in prostate cancer (PCa) patients is a clinical hurdle due to the poor understanding of the supportive bone microenvironment. Here, we identify stearoyl‐CoA desaturase (SCD) as a tumor‐promoting enzyme and potential therapeutic target in bone metastatic PCa.
Alexis Wilson +7 more
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Variations of Self-Employed in Eurozone Countries: The Role of Corruption and Wage Rate Growth [PDF]
Athens Journal of Business & EconomicsThis study emphasizes two variables as significant determinants of the number of individuals who choose self-employment. First, it is assumed that the opportunity cost of self-employment has a negative effect.
Gregory T. Papanikos
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Life satisfaction and self-employment in different types of occupations
, 2018 In this research, we investigate whether a positive relationship between life satisfaction and self-employment (versus paid employment) exists while simultaneously considering two occupational dimensions: white-collar versus blue-collar work and high ...
J. Hessels +3 more
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