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Subjective Well-Being as Welfare Measure: Concepts and Methodology.

Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co-existing concepts, resulting in differing measures and giving rise to different potential policy applications. This paper motivates the societal necessity for using well-being...

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Development of auditing in Malaysia: legal, political and historical influences

Azham, Ali; Teck Heang, Lee; Yusof, Nor Zalina; Ojo, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This work investigates the role and contribution of external auditing as practised in the Malaysian society during the forty year period from independence in 1957 to just before the onset of the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997. It applies the political economic theory introduced by Tinker (1980)...

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Are women in the MENA region really that different from women in Europe? Globalization, conservative values and female labor market participation.

Fischer, Justina AV; Aydıner-Avşar, Nursel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

This article aims to compare women in the MENA region with women in Europe as to how globalization affects their …, first, international trade, and, second, cross-national flows of information via persons and media. In Western Europe … labor market participation, mirroring the current development in the MENA countries. After the Cold War, in Western Europe …

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Limiting audit firms’ liability: A step in the right direction? (Proposals for a new audit liability regime in Europe revisited)

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper considers the responses of six audit firms, to the four options presented by the European Commission in reforming auditors’ liability. Whilst agreeing with a limitation in audit firms’ liability, it does not consider the means of limitation, as provided by the European Commission...

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