Degree BS Study Level Undergraduate Study Mode On Campus Economics is the study of how society uses its resources - natural, human and man-made. Jobs, wages, the stock market, unemployment, inflation, income inequality, and other economic issues affect us all on a daily basis at the ind...
Independently of the degree of voluntariness, we would expect part-time academics to experience a more severe loss of job satisfaction compared to full-time academics when experiencing a working time mismatch. Part-time work should rather constitute an instrument to prevent overemployment (Iseke 2014...
I hate it. Don’t involve athletes in geo political BS. Trash move. Athletes work their whole lives for that shot. One of my gym teachers in high school was an older gentleman who had qualified for these Olympics (weightlifting).You could tell when he talked about it that there was sti...
Since completing my degree in Business Law, I have been serving with an organization devoted to the stimulation and management of private-sector businesses – which I see as especially important to the overall development of the country. My ultimate goal is to contribute to creating sustainable sma...
Mainly by foregoing the first year of income earned by a college degree – about $43,000 on average, the study found. A gap-year graduate would start earning that same income a year later, and never quite catch up. For instance, a 25-year-old gap-year student would earn about $49,...
At the least, luck must not be too large. Today, a widespread economic contingency is one of the main acceptancy problems of the meritocratic principle. Neckel (2001, sec. 4) emphasized that merit as a foundation of distribution becomes absurd when jobs themselves have become scarcities (“eco...
In chapter 1, we construct a multi-sector labor search and matching model to investigate how economic shocks affect labor markets in developing countries. Workers in our model are heterogeneous in their productivity, and they can be employed either in high or low productivity urban jobs or in ...
On a 73-degree day, a steady stream of people walked around Waterfront Park in downtown Charleston where, at the brink of summer, children began... Read more → Community: The Rise of Silicon Harbor Stephanie Hunt Jan 9, 2013 Tiny red lights blink in a curious but steady rhythm; a qui...
Let’s try to sift through the BS. The overriding point is, Politicians are not “public servants”. They are self interested actors playing on a political stage. Biden needs lower gas prices to survive the upcoming election cycle. So he (the EPA) will do away with regulations which ...
2001). Thus, optimal compensation rules will also depend on the degree to which workers have internal versus external perceptions of control. Also important are the insights from a related literature that considers the interactions between preference heterogeneity and incentive contracts (see Dohmen 2014...