160 research outputs found
How can hybrid working work? Thoughts on participatory democracy in organizing Navigating Remote and Hybrid Work Models and the Impact on Employee Life
No full textSymposium Authors: Afshan Iqbal, Ravi Shanker Gajendran, Matthew Christopher Davis, Mark Robinson, Ajay Rama Ponnapalli, Amanuel G. Tekleab, Joseph Yestrepsky, Amadeja Lamovšek, Simona Šarotar Žižek, Matej Cerne, Laura Trinchera, Ales Popovic, Dejan Uršic, Katarina Katja Mihelic, Ajda Merkuz, Bettina Kubicek and Gislene Feiten Haubrich In the aftermath of a global pandemic, the demands for greater workplace flexibility have increased, with the rise of remote and hybrid work arrangements. Research has found that work arrangements such as remote work have been seen to improve employee well-being, productivity, and job satisfaction, with reports of a reduction in burnout. People can now work from anywhere, at any time, spanning spatial and temporal boundaries. However, this can lead to working longer hours, experiencing challenges in demarcating healthy boundaries, due to the spillover of work into non-work domains. This symposium presents five studies exploring the changing nature of work and the challenges and the ways in which these experiences may be improved. Each study focuses on remote and hybrid work arrangements and consider the following: 1) the influence of virtual meetings on technostress and work-family conflict, 2) whether changing work modalities influence the psychological contracts of employees, 3) enriched work design, spirit and work, meaningfulness and satisfaction with life, 4) the psychological detachment, thriving, work-nonwork balance between couples working in a hybrid setting and, 5) A thought- piece on participatory democracy in organizing, to make hybrid work arrangements work. Our esteemed discussant will then lead a general discussion, reflecting upon theoretical and practical implications and highlight future directions for research in this field. How can hybrid working work? Thoughts on participatory democracy in organizing. Author: Gislene Feiten Haubrich; Stockholm School of Economic
Sharing with a risk-neutral agent
No full textIn the standard solution to the principal–agent problem, a risk-neutral agent bears all the risk. The author shows that, in fact, multiple solutions exist, and often the risk-neutral agent is not the sole bearer of risk. As risk aversion approaches zero, the unique risk-averse solution converges to the risk-neutral solution, wherein the agent bears the least amount of risk. Even a small degree of risk aversion can result in agents bearing significantly less risk than the standard solution suggests.Risk
Predicting real growth using the yield curve
No full textA study using out-of-sample regressions to determine how well the 10-year, 3-month yield spread predicts future real GDP growth. The author finds that although the yield curve is a good predictor over the entire 30-year sample period, it has become much less accurate over the last decade.Forecasting ; Interest rates
Beoordeling van condities voor ontwikkeling van infrastructuur bij Potential Surface Analyse
No full textTransport & PlanningCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Cross-section Measurements of VH→bb at 13 TeV with CMS
No full textThe Standard Model predicts that Higgs bosons decay to bottom quarks a majorityof the time. The rate of this occurrence for Higgs bosons produced in association
with a W or Z boson is measured with the CMS Run 2 dataset of proton-proton
collisions at center-of-mass energy √s = 13 TeV. Data is selected based on leptons
produced from the vector boson decay, the identification of b jets, and event kine-
matics. Higgs decays resulting in two resolved jets or a single large jet are considered.
Cross sections of the VH→bb process are measured differentially as a function of the
vector boson transverse momentum and additional jet activity. The total yield of the
VH→bb process is measured to be 1.15+0.22
−0.20 times the Standard Model expectation,
while the differential cross sections agree with the Standard Model at the 5% level.
Several possible improvements to the analysis are proposed
Do excess reserves reveal credit crunches?
No full textThe author finds that because the level of excess reserves depends directly on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy stance, this measure is generally a poor indicator of credit availability.Credit ; Bank reserves ; Monetary policy
Vagueness, credibility, and government policy
No full textA discussion of the reasons why it may be in a government agency's--and society's--best interest to be vague about policy objectives. Using the concept of "cheap talk," the author explains that when an agency faces a trade-off between precise and credible announcements, its best move may be to provide truthful but limited information.Information theory
Term structure economics from A to B
No full textThe interest rates for bonds of different maturities are related, but the interplay of factors that influence these rates is not easy to tease apart. The author leads the reader through the development of a model of the term structure of interest rates, then works with the model to provide some insights into the interplay of factors, especially the effect of uncertainty on interest rates. His analysis shows how a common simplification known as the expectations hypothesis obscures the significant contribution that uncertainty can make to the determination of interest rates.Interest rates
Cycling on the Verge? Exploring the Place of Utility Cycling in Contemporary New Zealand Transport Policy
No full textEfforts to increase cycling as a mode of transport (utility cycling) occur at central, regional and local levels of government through a range of supportive strategies, research, and guidelines. Despite these efforts, utility cycling levels in New Zealand have remained persistently low. This thesis examines the apparent disparity between policy intent and policy result, using a discourse analytical approach. It examines how cycling is positioned in contemporary New Zealand transport policy documents, and explores whose priorities are shaping transport policy with what implications for utility cycling.
This study uses a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to analyse the land transport documents from across the institutions of government. The CDA approach, grounded in the work of van Dijk and Fairclough, draws on ideas from the interpretive tradition of discourse analysis, inspired by Foucault’s concepts of knowledge and power. This approach reveals the position of utility cycling by exposing the framing, dominant discourses, and discursive strategies that privilege certain transport objectives and activities over others.
The findings show transport is promoted almost exclusively by central government as an activity to facilitate economic growth and efficiency, despite its potential (and actual) impacts on health and well-being, social justice, and environmental sustainability. The discursive practices of the government privilege private motor vehicle use, helping to both legitimate and maintain that privilege at all levels of government, while positioning utility cycling as a marginalised mode of transport.
This thesis contributes to scholarship on utility cycling and land transport policy in New Zealand by identifying how the discursive strategies of government control the position of utility cycling in New Zealand. This study underscores the need for a central government-led, long-term strategic vision for a genuinely integrated, multi-modal transport system, in order for the benefits of utility cycling to be fully maximised
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