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Wie wirken Steuern auf die Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung?
Kroh, Tanja - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 65 (2016) 1, pp. 022-046
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California library referenda: the determinants of success and failure
Cain, Bruce E.; Cooper, Ellyce; Ferejohn, Sara; Potter, … - In: The Bottom Line 10 (1997) 2, pp. 44-57
In the past, citizens could take it for granted that California communities would provide public libraries for their citizens. However, due to new fiscal circumstances and a generational shift in how California voters view the role of government, libraries must increasingly take their case for...
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Personal selling constructs and measures: emic versus etic approaches to cross‐national research
Herche, Joel; Swenson, Michael J.; Verbeke, Willem - In: European Journal of Marketing 30 (1996) 7, pp. 83-97
Argues that salesforce research has typically been conducted in the USA, and that US researchers have developed the … designed to test the US theories have been sales personnel in the USA. Assesses the appropriateness of administering personal … of measurement transport: emic (culture specific) and etic (global). Evaluates the psychometric properties of two popular …
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Measurement equivalence and applicability of core marketing concepts across Nigerian, Kenyan, Japanese and US firms
Dadzie, Kofi Q.; Johnston, Wesley J.; Yoo, Boonghee; … - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 17 (2002) 6, pp. 430-455
Establishing the validity and measurement equivalence of core marketing concepts in the emerging market economies of …. However, measurement equivalence issues are rarely addressed in studies of marketing practices in Africa. Accordingly, this …, Japan and the USA. The results show that optimal scaling analysis of the managers’ evaluations provide more valid and …
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An Information Theory Approach to Measuring Industrial Diversification
Attaran, Mohsen; Zwick, Martin - In: Journal of Economic Studies 16 (1989) 1
It is demonstrated that entropy is a useful measure for examining industrial diversity either among regions or for a particular region over time. Using the entropy method, employment diversity indices are computed for the 50 states and the district of Columbia for the ten‐year period from 1972...
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Technological knowledge and firm performance of pharmaceutical firms
SubbaNarasimha, P.N.; Ahmad, Sohel; Mallya, Sudhirkumar N. - In: Journal of Intellectual Capital 4 (2003) 1, pp. 20-33
How efficient are firms at utilizing their technological knowledge stocks? In this paper we focus on a firm's breadth and depth of technological knowledge and investigate their differential effects on two performance measures: return on capital and sales growth. Using a sample of 29...
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Verzerrungen von Konsumentenpreisindices und ihr Einfluss auf das „reale“ Wirtschaftswachstum – dargestellt am Beispiel der USA / Biases in Consumer Price Indices and Their Impact...
Hartwig, Jochen; Schips, Bernd - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 225 (2005) 4, pp. 394-412
. Es erweist sich, dass die Divergenz in den Wachstumsraten der USA und der EU seit 1997 fast zur Gänze auf …
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Characterizing US dairy farm income and wealth distributions
Hadrich, Joleen C.; Wolf, Christopher A.; Johnson, Kamina K. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 77 (2017) 1, pp. 64-77
across dairy farms and how these factors differ across the USA. Design/methodology/approach Income and wealth inequality of …
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Endogenous Distribution, Politics, and the Growth-Equity Tradeoff
Das, Satya P; Ghate, Chetan - In: Contributions in Macroeconomics 4 (2004) 1
Abstract In comparison to the standard literature on inequality and growth which assumes the former to be exogenous, we formulate a model in which inequality and growth are both endogenous. Long-run distribution, at least locally, is shown to be independent of the initial distribution of factor...
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Population Changes and Capital Accumulation: The Aging of the Baby Boom
Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - In: Topics in Macroeconomics 1 (2001) 1
Abstract In this paper I explore the quantitative implications for savings of population aging. In doing so, I pay particular attention to some features that have been partially over-looked in the literature. These features include the details of the population aging process, the initial...
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