Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This article is concerned with whether employees on temporary contracts in Britain report lower well-being than those on permanent contracts, and whether this relationship is mediated by differences in dimensions of job... Read More about Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being.

Local culture and resistance to shocks in economic forecasts: A case study of Greece (2014)
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This paper offers an analysis of errors in stochastic forecasts in case of economic shocks, on the basis of local intangible investments and historic cultural persistence in Greece. The main objective of the paper is to demonstrate that local culture... Read More about Local culture and resistance to shocks in economic forecasts: A case study of Greece.

Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain (2014)
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© Economic History Society 2014. Using ownership and control data for 890 firm-years, this article examines the concentration of capital and voting rights in British companies in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that both capital an... Read More about Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain.

Culture-based development in the USA: culture as a factor for economic welfare and social well-being at a county level (2014)
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© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This paper explores the link between culture and regional development in USA counties by explicitly including an arts variable in an attitudes-driven culture-based development (CBD) production functio... Read More about Culture-based development in the USA: culture as a factor for economic welfare and social well-being at a county level.

Understanding student attendance in business schools: An exploratory study (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. There is considerable literature indicating that class attendance is positively related to academic performance. However, the narrative on what influences students' decisions to attend class is scant. This article examines why st... Read More about Understanding student attendance in business schools: An exploratory study.

Why do students study economics? (2014)
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'We have neither money nor time to have breakfast': Reflections on food vulnerability in northern Mozambique (in Italian) (2014)
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The article discusses measurements of food security based on the assumption that lack of access to monetary resources is the key determinant of food insecurity. It shows that in the North of Mozambique poor households are faced with both lack of mone... Read More about 'We have neither money nor time to have breakfast': Reflections on food vulnerability in northern Mozambique (in Italian).

Was Weber right? The cultural capital root of socio-economic growth examined in five European countries (2014)
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Purpose: The existing theoretical and empirical research on cultural impact is rather inconsistent. The purpose of this paper is to deal with the reasons for this inconsistency by debating the adequate inclusion of the cultural factor in the growth m... Read More about Was Weber right? The cultural capital root of socio-economic growth examined in five European countries.

A universal mechanism for long-range cross-correlations (2014)
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Cross-correlations are thought to emerge through interaction between particles. Here we present a universal dynamical mechanism capable of generating power-law cross-correlations between non-interacting particles exposed to an external potential. Thi... Read More about A universal mechanism for long-range cross-correlations.

Altruism to strangers for our own sake: Domestic effects from immigration: A comparative analysis for EU15 (2014)
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Purpose: Theoretical and empirical research on the impact of immigrants for local development is rather inconclusive regarding the direction of said impact. The purpose of this paper is to identify relationships between human capital and cultural cap... Read More about Altruism to strangers for our own sake: Domestic effects from immigration: A comparative analysis for EU15.

Introduction to cultural research approaches: Applications to culture and labour analysis (2014)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief introduction to the topic of cultural research approaches that are applicable for investigating the interdependence of culture and labour. The "Introduction" notes two main constraints and four... Read More about Introduction to cultural research approaches: Applications to culture and labour analysis.

The German miracle or the miracle of the cultural attitude Inequality and convergence as products of culture in Germany (2014)
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© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose : The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between redistribution, convergence and local cultural capital (as defined by culture-based development concept).Design/methodology/approach : The paper in... Read More about The German miracle or the miracle of the cultural attitude Inequality and convergence as products of culture in Germany.

What determines students' choices of elective modules? (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Prior literature emphasises supply side issues concerning the modularisation of university programmes such as curricula issues and enhanced learning opportunities. Comparatively little is known about the demand side, such as why... Read More about What determines students' choices of elective modules?.

Finance, Monetary Policy and the Institutional Foundations of the Phillips Curve (2013)
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of financial commitments on the short-run Phillips curve, under different institutional structures of the labour and product market, degrees of euphoria and ratios of firms' to workers' outstandin... Read More about Finance, Monetary Policy and the Institutional Foundations of the Phillips Curve.

Systems of accumulation and the evolving South African MEC (2013)
Book Chapter

Culture-based development: Culture and institutions – economic development in the regions of Europe (2013)
Journal Article

This inquiry seeks to provide a comprehensive conceptual framework for understanding the role of culture in economic growth. Economic growth theory has recognised labour and physical capital as primary economic inputs; plugging in additional variable... Read More about Culture-based development: Culture and institutions – economic development in the regions of Europe.

What drives inequality and poverty in the EU? Exploring the impact of macroeconomic and institutional factors (2013)
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Employing panel data techniques, we investigate the macroeconomic and institutional determinants of inequality and poverty in the EU over the period 1994-2008. We pay particular attention to the effects of macroeconomic environment, social protection... Read More about What drives inequality and poverty in the EU? Exploring the impact of macroeconomic and institutional factors.

Criticality and strong intermittency in the lorentz channel (2012)
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We demonstrate the emergence of criticality due to power-law cross correlations in an ensemble of noninteracting particles propagating in an infinite Lorentz channel. The origin of these interparticle long-range correlations is the intermittent dynam... Read More about Criticality and strong intermittency in the lorentz channel.

Culture-based development: Empirical evidence for Germany (2012)
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive concept for the role of culture in economic growth. Design/methodology/approach - The paper overviews the culture based development (CBD) concept and its precise definition of culture... Read More about Culture-based development: Empirical evidence for Germany.

Financialized corporate strategies and restructuring of global supply chains (2012)
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Industrial organization and Inter-firm relations within vertically disintegrated and spatially dispersed production systems emerged as a burgeoning area of research in the 1990s and 2000s across what might be broadly considered as development studies... Read More about Financialized corporate strategies and restructuring of global supply chains.