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This paper investigates the determinants of job satisfaction in Italy with particular emphasis on social relations. Our econometric analysis is based on four waves (1993, 1995, 1998 and 2000) of the Multipurpose Household Survey conducted annually by the Italian Central Statistics Office. The...
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This paper analyses inclusive growth that focuses on the creation of opportunities for all. Inclusive growth allows people to contribute to and benefit from economic growth, while pro-poor growth approaches focusing on welfare of the poor only to reduce inequality. Recently, economics literature...
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This paper surveys research on social capital with a specific emphasis on Africa studies. We explore deeply the definition and the main dimensions of social capital, following Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam. We also question the formation of social capital and address the issue of measurement. We...
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This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
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would also improve the possibility of knowledge exchange between the different fields. Ontology is – among others – the … scientific field that specifies such conceptual frameworks. Besides introducing and explaining this type of ontology, this paper … proposes an ontology of events in the demographies of organizations. Eight basic types of vital events can be distinguished and …
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implementation of an ontology-enabled Hybrid Destination Recommender System (HDRS) that leverages an ontological description of five …
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This paper is motivated by the observation that (1) socio economic analysis uses significantly less formalisms than mainstream economics, and (2) that there exist numerous situations in which socio economics could benefit from a more formal analysis. This is particularly the case if institutions...
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Institutionalist economists have always been criticizing the neoclassical way of studying the economy, especially because of its obsession to a very strict and flawed formalism. This formalism receives critique also from advocates of agent-based computational economic (ACE) models. The criticism...
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-making model, an expert systems-shell implementation and an implementation with ontology and inference engine. The paper ends with …
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DSS and KBS limits we propose a solution that consist in information semantically integration with the use of ontology and …
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