Does ICT affect the demand for vocationally educated workers?

Does Yelp Affect Restaurant Demand?

Do financial incentives affect firms ’ demand for disabled workers ?

A number of OECD countries aim to encourage work integration of disabled persons using quota policies. For instance, Austrian firms must provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 nondisabled workers and are subject to a tax if they do not. This “threshold design” provides causal estimates of the noncompliance tax on disabled employment if firms do not manipulate nondisabled employmen...

Does Promotion Depth Affect Long-Run Demand?

We use the results of three large-scale field experiments to investigate how the depth of a current price promotion affects future purchasing. While most previous studies have focused on packaged goods sold in grocery stores, we consider durable goods sold through a direct mail catalog. The findings reveal different effects for firsttime and established customers. Deeper price discounts in the ...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Educated People with Disabilities in the ICT Field

The purpose of this study was to find out if highly educated individuals with physical disabilities are employed in the ICT sector. This question is important due to little knowledge thus far despite the fact that there is a large group of disabled people who have graduated in the ICT sector, however unemployed. An empirical study was carried out with the help of a qualitative research method b...