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Immigrant Concentration at School and Natives' Achievement : Does the Type of Migrants and Natives Matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2017
concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950369
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Factors Behind International Relocation and Changes in Production Geography in the European Automobile Components Industry
Lampón, Jesús; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - 2013
This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159354
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Eurasian Integration and Its Institutions : Possible Contributions to Security in Eurasia
Vinokurov, Evgeny; Libman, Alexander - 2017
The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118027
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Professional reasoning in expressing the auditor's opinion
Bunget, Ovidiu-Constantin; David Sobolevschi, Iulia-Maria; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Unlike other information, assertions and conclusions made during the audit process, the auditor's opinion expressed in … classifications and their correction, the opinion expressed by the auditor may have significant consequences. An inadequate opinion … business. To the other extreme, an inadequate opinion may encourage unsustainable actions, with severe consequences both on own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578261
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Assessing uncertainty in Europe and the US: is there a common uncertainty factor?
Sauter, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper is an empirical investigation of uncertainty in the Euro Zone as well as the US. It conducts a factor analysis of uncertainty measures starting in 2001 until the end of 2011. For this purpose I use survey-based data provided by the ECB and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259226
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Composite indicator ECAICI and positioning of Georgia’s innovative capacities in Europe-Central Asia Region
Gogodze, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper presents a brief analysis of the current innovative capabilities of Georgia based on the Europe-Central Asia … that innovative processes in the Europe-Central Asia (ECA) region (by the World Bank classification) are mainly affected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260228
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Composite indicator ECAICI and positioning of Georgia’s innovative capacities in Europe-Central Asia Region
Gogodze, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
ECAICI indicator introduced in the present article enables to analyze innovative capacities dynamics of the ECA region (by The World Bank classification) countries in 1996-2010. Thorough research reveals four leading unobservable factors, affecting innovative processes in ECA region. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260815
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Normal versus Noncentral Chi-square Asymptotics of Misspecified Models
Chun, So Yeon; Alexander, Shapiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The noncentral chi-square approximation of the distribution of the likelihood ratio (LR) test statistic is a critical part of the methodology in structural equations modeling (SEM). Recently, it was argued by some authors that in certain situations normal distributions may give a better...
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Profiling student smokers:a behavioral approach
Theofanides, Faidon; Makri, Vasiliki; Mavroeidis, Vasileios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The aim of the present study is to construct a coherent profile of student smokers in Greece, based on their behavioral and demographic characteristics. In this context, we collected data by administrating an anonymous self-completed questionnaire, which was answered by students of University...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402052
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Principal Components and Factor Analysis. A Comparative Study.
Travaglini, Guido - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A comparison between Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Factor Analysis (FA) is performed both theoretically and empirically for a random matrix X:(n x p) , where n is the number of observations and both coordinates may be very large. The comparison surveys the asymptotic properties of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402055