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Opportunity- and Necessity-Driven Self-Employment Among Older People in Finland
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
To date, few empirical studies have attempted to highlight the impact of the socio-economic characteristics of older entrepreneurs according to whether they are driven by necessity or opportunity. Tervo and Haapanen ...
Cognitive consequences of the timing of puberty
(Elsevier, 2018)
In this paper, we use British cohort data to study the degree to which children at different stages of pubertal development at age 11 and 16 differ in their cognitive and behavioral outcomes at age 16 as well as in their ...
A kink that makes you sick : The effect of sick pay on absence
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2018)
We exploit a regression kink design to estimate the elasticity of the duration of
sickness absence with respect to replacement rate. Elasticity is a central parameter
in defining the optimal social insurance scheme ...
Acceptance of Online Health Services for Self-Help in the Context of Mental Health : Understanding Young Adults Experiences
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
This paper explores the understanding of the acceptance of online health services from a selfhelp perspective in the context of mental health. By examining the experiences of young adults,
this paper develops a framework ...
Company values guiding the recruitment of employees with a foreign background
(Emerald, 2019)
Purpose: In this paper, the following research question is addressed: Why do business organisations recruit employees with a foreign background? This was examined in terms of the values that guide organisations and their ...
Local bank competition and small business lending after the onset of the financial crisis
(Elsevier BV, 2016)
This paper examines whether the effects of the financial crisis on the volumes and prices of small business loans depended on the pre-crisis local competitive environment. To address this question, I employ a unique data ...
Precarious workers' choices about unemployment insurance membership after the Ghent system reform : The Finnish experience
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2019)
The literature on the Ghent system has focused on the link between voluntary unemployment insurance and union membership in terms of industrial relations. Less attention has been paid to unemployment benefits and employees' ...
Does it Pay to Be Ethical? Examining the Relationship Between Organisations' Ethical Culture and Innovativeness
(Springer Netherlands, 2014)
In this article, we examine the relationship between ethical organisational culture and organisational innovativeness. A quantitative empirical analysis is based on a survey of a total of 719 respondents from all levels ...
Graphic model for evaluating the competitiveness and eco-efficiency of eco-innovative projects
(Enterpreneurship and Sustainability Center, 2019)
Eco-innovation describes the creation of novel and competitively priced goods, processes, systems, services, policies, and procedures that satisfy human needs and improve the quality of life while ensuring sustainable ...
Application of information and communication technology for internationalization of Nigerian small- and medium-sized enterprises
(City University of Hong Kong, 2019)
Information and communication technology (ICT) has fundamentally transformed business transactions. While its uses have become ubiquitous in the advanced economies, emerging and developing economies are still struggling ...