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International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.Abstract This paper presents findings from interviews with creative arts academics examining how the COVID‐19 disruption reshaped studio‐based teaching practices and informed future pedagogical thinking. Participants described the disruption as a period that compelled rapid adaptation and created opportunities to experiment, review and reflect on their
Tara Winters, Nick Konings
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Explaining the evolution of pension structure and job tenure [PDF]
Average and expected job tenure of workers has fallen significantly over the last two decades. Workers have also experienced a major shift in pension coverage.
Leora Friedberg, Michael T. Owyang
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Job Market Signaling and Job Search [PDF]
The high cost of searching for employers borne by prospective employees increases friction in the labor market and inhibits formation of efficient employer-employee relationships.
Andriy Zapechelnyuk, Ro'i Zultan
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the European Commission's (Commission) capacity to manage and deepen the EU–UK relationship post the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and its efforts to expand its competencies within the framework, through the use of the principal–agent theory.
David Moloney, Simon Usherwood
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Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War [PDF]
What motivated men to risk death in the most horrific war in U.S. history when pay was low and irregular and military punishment strategies were weak? In such a situation creating group loyalty by promoting social capital is of paramount importance and ...
Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn
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Franco‐British Bilateral Diplomacy After Brexit, 2020–2025: Mending the Ties That Bind
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Brexit shook to its very core one of the European Union's (EU's) prominent partnerships, the Franco‐British bilateral relationship (FBBR), disrupting diplomatic routines and shattering interpersonal trust before circumstances changed and the relationship rapidly began to mend. In this article, we analyse the breakdown and restoration of Franco‐
Helen Drake, Pauline Schnapper
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Incentive and Signaling Effects of Bonus Payments: An Experiment in a Company
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use may signal the prevalence of free‐riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis with an artefactual field experiment that assigns managers and employees from a large company to stylized roles ...
Marvin Deversi, Lisa Spantig
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap [PDF]
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative ...
Andrea Ichino, Enrico Moretti
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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
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Workfare, Monitoring, and Efficiency Wages [PDF]
The impact of a stronger work requirement for welfare recipients in a workfare program is studied in an efficiency wage model where a representative firm chooses its level of monitoring activities.
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