The 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak was first discovered in Wuhan, China, and declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. In dealing with COVID-19 pandemic, various countries have implemented social restrictions their citizens. Social limits due to caused different life effects that never occurred. This phenomenon will affect transmission of existing disea...

mobile technology is getting changed very fast in commensurate with other technological hyper changes. buyers’ expectation from a new cellular phone is also changing over time. producers, thereby, have to keep themselves abreast of changes in customer taste and preferences to attract, capture, grow, and retain both existing and potential customers. this study is set to measure factors affecting...

This paper studies the willingness to become an entrepreneur depending on an individual’s composition of human and social capital. Our theoretical analysis is an application and extension of Lazear’s (2005) jack-of-all-trades theory. Our primary implication is that it is not individuals with a higher level of human or social capital but rather individuals with a more balanced portfolio of human...

How individuals think about opposing or paradoxical categories influences their social relationships. We found that Chinese managers were more likely than US managers to categorize attempts to outperform others as an instance of both competition and cooperation. Further, the Chinese managers were more likely than the US managers to perceive a given working relationship as being both cooperative...

This study examines the health of a sample representative of 1.8 million men aged 45-59 in 1969 who permanently withdrew from the labor force before age 62 between 1966-1975. The analysis concentrates on comparing the health of men receiving Social Security disability benefits with that of men reporting work-limiting health conditions at labor force withdrawal but not receiving Social Security ...

In the era of Social Web, there has been an explosive growth of user-contributed comments posted to various online social media. However, increasingly more misleading and deceptive user comments found at online social media have also been a great concern for consumers and merchants, and social spam have been brought to the attention by the legal circle in recent years. Social spam can cause tre...

Economics views work as merely providing purchasing power. Many economists agree that there is a great deal more to work, but they nonetheless feel comfortable with this narrow description, believing that important aspects of work that they have left out of consideration have no impact on the validity of their analytical conclusions and policy propositions. This paper argues that if economics i...