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Wie kann die durchschnittliche Ausbildungsquote in Deutschland korrekt gemessen werden?
Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - 2008
). In addition the deviation from the yearly mean differs between occupations at certain measurement dates because … shares instead of certain measurement dates. It also argues to use daily accurate employment data from the German social …
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Appraising Diversity with an Ordinal Notion of Similarity: An Axiomatic Approach
Gravel, Nicolas; Bervoets, Sebastian - 2004
This paper provides an axiomatic characterization of two rules for comparing alternative sets of objects on the basis of the diversity that they offer. The framework considered assumes a finite universe of objects and an a priori given ordinal quadernary relation that compares alternative pairs...
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Tracing the Changing Measures of Unemployment in Dutch Unemployment Statistics 1900-1940
Rodenburg, Peter - 2001
In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper...
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Models as Measuring Instruments
Rodenburg, Peter - 2004
- provided the models is calibrated - this suffice for measurement. This paper explores this construction of a measuring device … in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … measurement to take place by modelling behaviour according to some assumptions, which operate as constraints. While this Weibull …
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The measurement of social welfare
Tsuneki, Atsushi - 2007
the present suboptimal economy. We discuss pros and cons of our approach for the measurement of welfare compared with … other approaches to applied welfare economics, especially the measurement of deadweight loss. …
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Measuring a new aspect of ethnicity: The appropriate diversity index
Kolo, Philipp - 2012
Combined with the expansion of economic literature on the role of ethnicity, new indices were developed to do justice to its complexity. The current indices are generally based on pre-defined groups, disregarding the (dis)similarities between them. This is sufficient to calculate the most common...
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Measuring Saving Rates in New Zealand: An Update
Gorman, Emma; Scobie, Grant M; Paek, Yongjoon - 2013
This paper reviews the flow approach (income less consumption) to measuring saving and the associated trends in sectoral saving rates for New Zealand, as derived from the national accounts. It also presents estimates for the household sector, of the stock measure of savings (changes in net...
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A sociological perspective on measuring social norms by means of strategy method experiments
Rauhut, Heiko; Winter, Fabian - 2009
The measurement of social norms plays a pivotal role in many social sciences. While economists predominantly conduct …, on the one hand, often fall short in the measurement of more complex elements, such as the conditionality or the level of …
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Residentielle Segregation
Dangschat, Jens S. - In: Räumliche Auswirkungen der internationalen Migration, (pp. 63-77). 2014
Die residentielle Segregation - verstanden als die ungleichmäßige Verteilung der Wohngelegenheiten sozialer Gruppen - wird über Segregationsindices als relative Abweichung der Anteilswerte in städtischen Teilgebieten gegenüber der Gesamtstadt gemessen. Diese Durchschnittswerte sagen jedoch...
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Zur Messung der Nutzung regionaler Potenziale beim Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien: Eine empirische Analyse deutscher Landkreise
Bennat, Tatjana; Brökel, Tom; Sternberg, Rolf G. - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 77 (2019) 6, pp. 617-638
Der Beitrag beantwortet zwei bislang kaum behandelte Fragen: Wie gut schöpfen deutsche Regionen ihr Potenzial zur Erzeugung regenerativer Energien aus und welche Faktoren beeinflussen diese Ausbaueffizienz? Mit dem neuartigen quantitativ-empirischen Konzept der Ausbaueffizienz wird das Ausmaß...
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