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Industrial decline and labor reallocation in a transforming economy : Romania in early transition

Earle, John S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

Industrial decline and restructuring in the transition economies presents a prime example of the relationship between changes in aggregate economic indicators and underlying microeconomic adjustments. This paper employs matched labor force survey data to focus on the magnitude and determinants...

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Subjective well-being and selected economic, demographic, and job factors in OECD countries

Marilou, Ioakimidis; Kiohos, Apostolos - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 71-81

This study compared 10 economic, demographic, and job factors between happier and less happy OECD countries based upon scores of subjective well-being (SWB), a concept commonly meaning happiness or life satisfaction. In 2009, the scores of residents in the happier OE CD countries were...

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A review of the rationales for corporate risk management : fashion or the need?

Sprčić, Danijela Miloš; Tekavčič, Metka; Šević, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 1 (2008) 1, pp. 71-99

This paper presents the extensive literature survey based both on theoretical rationales for hedging as well as the empirical evidence that support the implications of the theory regarding the arguments for the corporate risk management relevance and its influence on the company's value. The...

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La prima de riesgo recargada en un seguro de rentas : tarificación mediante el uso de una medida de riesgo coherente

Hernández Solís, Montserrat; Lozano Colomer, Cristina; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 15 (2013), pp. 151-167

The goal of this study is to get a premium calculation principle, for the life insurance business, based on a coherent risk measure (Wang, 1995) in the form of power, called \Proportional Hazards (PH) Transforms" to justify the recommendation of Solvency II to reduce the effect of the mortality...

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Internationalization and cluster potentials with special emphasis on wood-processing sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Martinovic, Danijela; Karisik, Jasmina; Bico-Car, Mirha - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 4 (2013) 2, pp. 231-242

potential of clustering, and finally business internationalization of SMEs. …Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in all national economies are generators of growth and development. This statement … is confirmed by the fact that SMEs in the European Union (EU) account for 90% of the total number of companies, and that …

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Kooperationen : Triebkraft der Innovationsfähigkeit von Spin-offs aus Forschungseinrichtungen

Leijpras, Anna - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 36, pp. 3-7

In den letzten Jahren haben sich die Ausgründungen aus wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen zu einem beachtlichen ökonomischen und innovationspolitischen Phänomen entwickelt. Akademische Spin-offs gelten - neben Lizenzen, Patenten, Kooperations- und Beratungstätigkeiten - als ein wichtiger...

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Hungarian retailing in the crisis period

Horváth, Marianna; Pakai, Katalin - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 151-162

The crisis affects on all over the world, businesses and consumers too. The changes on market participants are often negatively affected in most industries. In the Hungarian market there is also a major transformation. In this paper we would like to present the most important data of Hungarian...

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Outsourcing of service areas as a method of increasing the effectiveness of a company

Ziółkiewicz, Marek - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 2, pp. 45-56

An increasing number of companies, in order to improve their competitive stance on the market, decide to outsource some of their service functions to external subjects. Outsourcing of this type of activity is frequently regarded as a strategic decision. A properly conducted outsourcing project...

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Erwerbsminderungsrentner : sinkende Leistungen und wachsende Einkommensunterschiede im Alter

Krause, Peter; Erhlich, Ulrike; Möhring, Katja - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 24, pp. 3-9

Die Zahl der Zugänge in die Erwerbsminderungsrente ist nach Angaben der Deutschen Rentenversicherung seit den 90er Jahren stark gesunken. In den Jahren 2005 bis 2010 erfolgte ein leichter Wiederanstieg. Seit 2001 haben sich auch die Zahlbeträge bei den Zugängen zur Erwerbsminderungsrente...

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Gender differences in work stress, related to organizational conflicts and organizational constrains : an empirical research

Stafyla, Amalia; Kaltsidou, Georgia; Spyridis, Nikolaos - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 91-101

In modern era, stress at workplace is a component of employees’ and organizations’ daily routine. The current research intends to study the gender differences as far as the ways that stress is witnessed in the workplace is concerned. Participants in this study were 231 Greek adults, employed...

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