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Experience of technological and natural disasters and their impact on the perceived risk of nuclear accidents after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan 2011: A cross-country an...
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
experience of such disasters affects the perception of the risk of nuclear accidents. Estimation results show that the perceived … risk of a nuclear accident is positively associated with experiencing technological disasters but not with that of natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652029
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Receptarea soap-opera de către tineri. Studiu de caz: „Beverly Hills”
Branea, Silvia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Besides the theoretical approach, the paper also includes an research conducted with students of the Faculty of Jornalism and Communication at the University of Bucarest. The main objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the media fiction (television series for youth)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257700
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Adaptive Interactive Profit Expectations and Small World Networks
Bell, William Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The aim of this paper is to simulate profit expectations as an emergent property using an agent based model. The paper builds upon adaptive expectations, interactive expectations and small world networks, combining them into a single adaptive interactive profit expectations model (AIE)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259382
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Adaptive Interactive Profit Expectations and Small World Networks
Bell, William Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The aim of this paper is to simulate profit expectations as an emergent property using an agent based model. The paper builds upon adaptive expectations, interactive expectations and small world networks, combining them into a single adaptive interactive profit expectations model (AIE)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010601616
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Experience of technological and natural disasters and their impact on the perceived risk of nuclear accidents after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan 2011: A cross-country an...
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
experience of such disasters affects the perception of the risk of nuclear accidents. Estimation results show that the perceived … risk of a nuclear accident is positively associated with experiencing technological disasters but not with that of natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132730
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How have employees fared? Recent UK trends
Fitzner, Grant - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
An analysis of trends over the past decade in earnings, job growth, employment security and working time experienced by UK employees.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835587
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Labor Market Rigidity and Business Cycle Volatility
Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Moritz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
employment to unemployment (EU) were lower by a factor of 4 in Germany. (2) The volatility of the UE rate was equal but the EU … rate was 2.3 times more volatile in Germany. (3) In Germany EU flows contributed 60 − 70% to the unemployment volatility …Comparing labor markets of the United States and Germany over the period 1980 − 2004 uncovers three stylized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259260
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Governance & Economic Growth
Punabantu, Siize - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper looks at some of the fundamental ideas in contemporary economics such as the basic economic problem, opportunity cost and allocation a person is expected to encounter when they are first introduced to economic theory. It attempts to explain how the manner in which these concepts are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685377
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The Effect of the Business Cycle on Apprenticeship Training: Evidence from Germany
Baldi, Guido; Brüggemann-Borck, Imke; Schlaak, Thore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The benefits of dual apprenticeship programs are usually discussed in the context of reducing structural unemployment … apprenticeship system seems to dampen the volatility of youth unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113024
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Perception of job instability in Europe
Böckerman, Petri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The perception of job instability is an important measure of subjective well-being of individuals, because most people … derive their income from selling their labour services. The study explores the determination of perception of job instability … age and an earlier unemployment episode. An increase in educational level, on the other hand, leads to a decline in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787215