The selection of workers into part-time jobs, and the wages they earn, are analysed using Canadian data. We focus on the distinction between voluntary and involuntary part-time workers since involuntary part-timers earn substantially lower wages than voluntary part-timers. We nd that the selection of individuals into involuntary part-time work is more closely tied to job characteristics such as...

Hyposensitivity to reward in depression and dysphoria has been found in behavioral and neuroimaging studies. For punishment responsiveness, some studies showed hyposensitivity to punishment while other studies demonstrated hypersensitivity. Only few studies have addressed the motivational question as to whether depressed individuals mobilize less effort in anticipation of a positive or a negati...

The workings of monetary systems have been controversially discussed. Mainstream economists assert that money creation is a ‘top down’ process governed by centralized policy decisions (central banks => customers), while heterodox emphasize ‘bottom up’ dynamics in the opposite direction, driven customers’ demand for credit. article draws on sociological insights into complementarity formal an...

Objectives: Career choice is a complex process where individual and environmental factors are effective. Medicine one of occupational disciplines which preferred most by young people who successfull numerical subject in Turkey. This study was carried out to determine the that affect career choices firs-year students faculty medicine at state university. Materials methods: The descriptive cross-...

The current research examines how exposure to performance incentives affects one's desire for the reward object. We hypothesized that the flexible nature of performance incentives creates an attentional fixation on the reward object (e.g., money), which leads people to become more desirous of the rewards. Results from 5 laboratory experiments and 1 large-scale field study provide support for th...

We present txteagle, a system that enables people to earn small amounts of money by completing simple tasks on their mobile phone for corporations who pay them in either airtime or MPESA (mobile money). The system is currently being launched in Kenya and Rwanda in collaboration with the mobile phone service providers Safaricom and MTN Rwanda. Tasks include translation, transcription, and survey...

The article is aimed at analyzing the behavior of labor migrants from CIS countries who come to Moscow earn money and face a significant amount life difficulties. theoretical basis research theory marginal man by Robert Park concept stranger Georg Simmel. methodology based on mixed methods — combination in-depth interviews standardized online survey. In process authors’ research, main situation...

This study explored the relationship of online course intensity to development of social networks and the impact of social networks on obtaining employment or employment information to develop a better understanding of the factors that lead to improved employment outcomes and information-gathering. Graduates from three ALA-accredited programs in the Southeastern US who took some of all of their...

Abstract We study today’s two-tier money creation and destruction system: Commercial banks create bank deposits (privately created money) through loans to firms or asset purchases from the private sector. Bank are destroyed when households buy equity repay loans. Central electronic central (publicly reserves) commercial banks. In a simple general equilibrium setting, we show that symmetric equi...