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Die Qualität von Berufsakademien aus Unternehmenssicht - eine empirische Untersuchung
Naujoks, Petra - 2007
Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Qualität von Berufsakademien aus Arbeitgebersicht. Es erfolgt zunächste eine Aufarbeitung der theoretischen Grundlagen für Dienstleistungsqualität, insbesondere aus der Perspektive von Bildungsinstitutionen, insbesondere von Berufsakademien. Anschließend...
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ICT, the City and Society
Cohen, Galit; Nijkamp, Peter - 2002
-makers according to the way they perceive their city (the imaginable city), their opinion about ICT and the way they asses the …
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...
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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …
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Baltikum: kein Ende der Krise in Sicht
Alvarez-Plata, Patricia; Engerer, Hella - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 40, pp. 676-682
Die globale Finanzkrise und der damit verbundene dramatische Einbruch der privaten Kapitalflüsse hat die Volkswirtschaften der baltischen Länder in besonderem Maße getroffen. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt ist im ersten Halbjahr 2009 in Lettland um 18,8 Prozent, in Estland um 15,7 Prozent und...
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A factorial survey on the justice of earnings within the SOEP-pretest 2008
Sauer, Carsten; Liebig, Stefan; Auspurg, Katrin; Hinz, … - 2009
In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...
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Generalized Measurement Invariance Tests with Application to Factor Analysis
Merkle, Edgar C.; Zeileis, Achim - 2011
The issue of measurement invariance commonly arises in factor-analytic contexts, with methods for assessment including likelihood ratio tests, Lagrange multiplier tests, and Wald tests. These tests all require advance definition of the number of groups, group membership, and offending model...
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A solution to the problem of too many instruments in dynamic panel data GMM
Mehrhoff, Jens - 2009
The well-known problem of too many instruments in dynamic panel data GMM is dealt with in detail in Roodman (2009, Oxford Bull. Econ. Statist.). The present paper goes one step further by providing a solution to this problem: factorisation of the standard instrument set is shown to be a valid...
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A solution to the problem of too many instruments in dynamic panel data GMM
Mehrhoff, Jens - 2009
The well-known problem of too many instruments in dynamic panel data GMM is dealt with in detail in Roodman (2009, Oxford Bull. Econ. Statist.). The present paper goes one step further by providing a solution to this problem: factorisation of the standard instrument set is shown to be a valid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300222
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On the Latin American growth paradox: A hindsight into the Golden Age
Barboni, Giorgia; Treibich, Tania - 2010
In 1950, Latin American countries capabilities were promising, and the subcontinent was thought to have a big potential for convergence. In order to understand why this prediction was not fulfilled, we apply in this paper the framework set by Fagerberg and Srholec (2008(24)). Our study of the...
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