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As we move from the concept of empowerment to its measurement, it is natural that the complexity in the concept passes …
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This paper aims at analysing the performances of the EU member states in the Europe 2020 Strategy and understanding the main factors of success. It builds on the Europe 2020 Index developed in Pasimeni (2011) to quantify and measure progress achieved by the 27 countries in pursuing the...
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about how to make an accurate measurement in such a delicate task. Along this brief document we offer some concise guidance … of how to scan the hands using digital scanners and provide a comprehensive guideline to make a reliable measurement of … the 2D:4D. Furthermore, we point out the most common imaging and measurement errors. We also provide a number of hints …
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This article presents an analysis of the evolution of job quality from 2000 to 2010 in the European Union 15, using a newly developed composite measure of job quality that is applied to the European Working Conditions Survey. After a careful study of the evolution of job quality across the...
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may fail to produce a valid measurement, and this unmeasured relatedness can result in endogeneity in empirical analyses …
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Special Issue on Measurement with Theory. The included papers in the special issue are part of a larger initiative to promote … "measurement with theory" in economics and planned to appear as special issues of other journals. A later revised draft of this …
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In certain respects, it seems expedient to describe a government as a homogeneous and self-interested entity, called ’Leviathan’. To optimize fiscal constraints, we need to know how powerful a Leviathan really is. This paper presents a new approach to measure the power of Leviathans. This...
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This paper explores the empirical support behind the idea that there is a trade-off between the size of the migrant population and the rights and entitlements enjoyed by immigrants. We first look at the empirical correlation between measures of migrants’ rights and the size of the stock of...
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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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full financial year. The accounting policies for recognition and measurement should be applied in the same way as they are … estimation methods; the measurement procedures should be designed to ensure the correctness of all the resulting information …
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