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Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-Assessed Health among Elderly Europeans: The Impact of Mental and Physical Health Status
Pfarr, Christian; Schmid, Andreas; Schneider, Udo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) which provides a rich dataset on the elderly European population. To obtain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919782
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Wealth inequality in Europe and the delusive egalitarianism of Scandinavian countries
Skopek, Nora; Buchholz, Sandra; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare states. Using SHARE data, our analyses suggest (1) that there is strong variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370841
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Validating SHARE in France with other French surveys : health and income data
Garrouste, Christelle; Godefroy, Pascal; Laferrère, Anne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is cross national: the questionnaire is identical across … proceed to solely national use of the data. Moreover, as SHARE is unique in Europe in terms of scope and target sample, its … key SHARE variables to their counterparts in other French surveys. We concentrate on health and income data that we relate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836402
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The Effect of Pension Generosity on Early Retirement: A Microdata Analysis for Europe from 1967 to 2004.
Fischer, Justina AV; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Using pseudo-panel microdata we show that pension generosity affects early retirement decisions. The changes in the average replacement rate and decreases in wealth accrual between 1967 and 2004 have caused an increase in early retirement probabilities from 16% to 63%.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031396
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Minority Policies of Turkey and Wealth Tax of 1942
Kaya, Furkan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper focuses on minorities in Turkey and influences of Second World War period which caused internal discomforts and inequalities upon Turkish minorities. First i review the position of minorities and contribute the framework for understanding the place of non-Muslim groups in Turkey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113517
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Evaluating land administration systems: a comparative method with an application to Peru and Honduras
Bandeira, Pablo; Sumpsi, Jose María; Falconi, Cesar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article develops a methodology for the evaluation of land administration systems. We propose a set of quantitative … evaluation indicators, while evaluating the systems of both countries. Here we present the final refined indicators and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835430
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Improving Distributed Intelligence in Complex Innovation Systems
Kuhlmann, Stefan; Boekholt, Patries; Georghiou, Luke; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
hypothesis is that the existing body of experiences with technology foresight, technology assessment and S/T policy evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835616
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Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit
Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C.; Soon, Willie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to list rests upon forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836045
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Cooperation networks and innovation: A complex system perspective to the analysis and evaluation of a EU regional innovation policy programme
Russo, Margherita; Rossi, Federica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
issues connected with the design, monitoring and evaluation of such interventions. Combining tools from ethnographic research … approach allows us to derive some general methodological suggestions for the design and evaluation of similar programmes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836808
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Assessing probabilistic forecasts about particular situations
Green, Kesten C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
How useful are probabilistic forecasts of the outcomes of particular situations? Potentially, they contain more information than unequivocal forecasts and, as they allow a more realistic representation of the relative likelihood of different outcomes, they might be more accurate and therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836959