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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
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Les restaurants du coeur : pour qui et pourquoi ?
Mulquin, Marie-Eve; Siaens, Corinne; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
restaurant thus appears to contribute to the fight against social exclusion as much as to that against poverty per se. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617042
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Deprivation profile in Cameroon: A combined analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion
Miamo Wendji, Clovis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework … provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from … ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of poverty and social exclusion (respectively 0.4008 and 0.2291), are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275134
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Make Almost Stochastic Dominance really Almost
Guo, Xu; Wong, Wing-Keung; Zhu, Lixing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Leshno and Levy (2002) extend stochastic dominance (SD) theory to almost stochastic dominance (ASD) for {\it most} decision makers. When comparing any two prospects, Guo, et al.\ (2013) find that there will be ASD relationship even there is only very little difference in mean, variance,...
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Local development initiatives in metropolitan areas' suburban municipalities: a comparative case-study between Amadora (Lisbon-PT) and Diadema (São Paulo-BR)
Marques, Bruno Pereira; Carvalho, Rui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Amadora and Diadema are two small-sized but densely populated suburban municipalities, territorially contiguous to the metropolises of Lisbon (PT) and São Paulo (BR). In spite of their geographic and socio-economic specificities they both present common and important social exclusion (e.g....
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Disability and Social Exclusion Dynamics in Italian Households
Parodi, Giuliana; Sciulli, Dario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper investigates the dynamics of social exclusion comparing Italian households with and without disabled people, adopting the EU definition of social exclusion and the social model approach to the disability. The analysis applies a dynamic probit model accounting for true state...
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Soziale und regionale Ungleichgewichte, politische Instabilitaet und die Notwendigkeit von Pensionsreformen im neuen Europa
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
If Europe wants to fulfill it’s Lisbon agenda of catching up with the United States, it must overhaul its pension systems and introduce some form or other of private pension funds, which are a major force in financing technological advance in the capitalist world economy today. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619765
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Hen or Egg? The relationship between IC-technologies and social exclusion
Krings, Bettina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
If we take a look at developments on the labour market, we find that the rate of employment stands in a close relationship to the introduction of new technologies and their social and cultural consequences. The immediate effects of new technologies on new forms of work-structures are, in fact,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619510
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Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps
Chantarat, Sommarat; Barrett, Christopher B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper explores the role social network capital might play in facilitating poor agents’ escape from poverty traps … complement to or a substitute for productive assets in facilitating some poor households’ escape from poverty. However, the … impede some poor households’ efforts to exit poverty. The ameliorative potential of social networks therefore depends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790335
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Working Profiles and Employment Regimes in European Panel Perspective
Muffels, Ruud; Fouarge, Didier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Using longitudinal information on labour market participation we analyse the dynamics of unemployment in Europe. We focus in particular on individuals with a poor attachment to the labour market. The countries under scrutiny are clustered into four ideal-typical welfare regimes. Overall, a...
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