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personal happiness. Comparing policy, organisational practice and individual experiences of employees' working lives, it …
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This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics …. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and … psychologists. This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for discussion of the economic issues relating to happiness. It reviews …
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"Through concise investigations into key questions such as how we can develop meaningful work experiences and how we can create an enabling work setting, Jaap Paauwe aids readers' understanding of how optimal workplace commitment and organizational performance may be achieved. Progressing...
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"This timely book offers a fascinating contemporary analysis of research into the gender pay gap while also providing … attempted to elucidate this challenging topic. Explaining the Gender Wage Gap examines often-neglected factors that highlight … neoclassical discrimination theories whilst analysing models used to calculate the gender wage gap. They conclude that modern …
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"This timely book expertly analyses the persistence of gender inequalities in work. Despite the progress made through … frameworks regulating work and employment relations, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated gender divides in labour … markets. The authors present innovative ways to promote gender equality in a variety of industrial relations systems, welfare …
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"In this thoughtful book, Penny Dick challenges orthodox views of gender inequality. Combining post …-structuralist thinking with process ontology, the author presents a novel conceptual approach to rethinking gender inequalities in … organizations and management settings. The author argues that current understandings of gender inequalities tend to focus too much …
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Contents: 1. Gender and entrepreneurial activity : an overview / Albert N. Link -- 2. The psychology of the … entrepreneur and the gender gap in entrepreneurship / Olga Bentsson, Tino Sanandaji and Magnus Johannesson -- 3. Female immigrant … entrepreneurship in Germany / David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann, and Katharine Wirsching -- 4. Gender and entrepreneurship : selected …
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"This forward-thinking Handbook explores two major research strands in the fast-developing field of culture and network analysis: the underlying social networks of culture and the cultural bases of social networks. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, editors Nick Crossley and Paul Widdop...
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-i-Carbonell (2004), Happiness Quantified - A Satisfaction Calculus Approach, Oxford: Oxford University Press. -- Sarracino, Francesco … economics of happiness. Professor Frey and Professor Stutzer have selected contributions by leading scholars which offer a wide …-ranging overview of recent developments. These include an exploration of the economic determinants of happiness, the importance of …
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This timely and important book presents a unique study of happiness from both economic and political perspectives. It … offers an overview of contemporary research on the emergent field of happiness studies and contains contributions by some of …pt. I. Happiness -- pt. II. Happiness and economics -- pt. III. Happiness and politics -- pt. IV. What is to be done? …
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