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Firm Ownership and Internal Labor Practices in a Transition Economy: An Exploration of Worker Skill Acquisition in Vietnam [PDF]
One feature common to many post-socialist transition economies is a relatively compressed wage structure in the state owned sector. We conjecture that this compressed wage structure creates weak incentives for work effort and worker skill acquisition and
Jed Friedman
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton +2 more
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Enterprise ESG Performance, Digital Transformation, and Firm Performance: Evidence from China
SAGE OpenEnterprise environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and digital transformation are of great value for enhancing firm performance. Based on data from A-share listed companies in China from 2016 to 2022, a regression model was constructed to
Xiuzhi Zheng, Qianqian Bu
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How are China's state-owned enterprises doing in the 1990s? Evidence from three interior provinces [PDF]
Since its inception in the early 1980s, the success of China's enterprise reforms remains hotly debated. This paper introduces a new element into the analysis of state-owned enterprise performance by drawing on the recent increase in interregional income
Raiser, Martin
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2023 Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum presented a pivotal moment in the nation's democratic landscape. Despite support for Indigenous well‐being, the referendum did not secure the necessary approval, prompting extensive analysis of its outcome.
Scott Baum, William Mitchell
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Air pollution and labour productivity: firm-level spatial evidence from China
Environmental Research CommunicationsAs environmental degradation increasingly threatens sustainable growth, understanding the impact of air pollution on firm performance has become a critical area of research. This study investigates the influence of delicate particulate matter (PM _1 ) on
Yi Zhang, Weijun Liang, Yongfu Liang
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Entrepreneurship, Collective Entrepreneurship and the Producer-Owned Firm
Entrepreneurship is predominantly associated with the activities of an individual actor – the entrepreneur. It has also been related to the concept of firm ownership (e.g. Foss and Klein, 2005).
Doorneweert, Bart, Bijman, Jos
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Endogenous Timing in a Price-Setting Mixed Duopoly with a Foreign Competitor [PDF]
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2016 This paper considers mixed duopoly games where a state-owned public firm and a foreign private firm compete in price. The public firm aims to maximize the un-weighted sum of consumer surplus and its own profit. The paper examines a desirable role (either
Kazuhiro Ohnishi
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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