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Women's time use with ICT and physical travel in Greek urban and rural areas
Polydoropoulou, Amalia; Tsirimpa, Athena - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 62 (2012) 1/2, pp. 72-91
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) can contribute to the modification and development of new patterns of behaviour by individuals in their everyday lives. The implementation of e-activities such as teleworking, tele-education or tele-shopping cut down the need for physical...
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A quantitative model supporting socially responsible public investment decisions for sustainable tourism
Skrame, Aurora; Ciancio, Claudio; Corvello, Vincenzo; … - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 8 (2020) 2, pp. 1-9
The purpose of this article is to develop a quantitative model that supports policy makers in the tourism sector in making socially responsible investment decisions. In particular, this paper proposes a methodological approach to assess the impact of strategic decisions at the policy level, in...
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Agricultural cooperatives
Tortia, Ermanno; Valentinov, Vladislav; Iliopoulos, … - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity 2 (2013) 1, pp. 23-36
The economic nature of agricultural cooperatives is explained by means of a logical continuation of the organizational economics rationale for family farms. The traditional explanations of the importance of family farms is discussed, and embedded in a broader framework which considers their...
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Grundsteuer durch einen kommunalen Einkommensteuerzuschlag ersetzen
van Suntum, Ulrich; Schultewolter, Daniel - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 98 (2018) 5, pp. 353-356
Trotz jahrzehntelanger Reformdiskussion hat es der Gesetzgeber bisher nicht geschafft, die Grundsteuer verfassungskonform zu gestalten. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat die bestehende Grundsteuer für verfassungswidrig erklärt, weil sie auf stark veralteten Grundstückswerten beruht. Die...
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Mexico's economic infrastructure: International benchmark and its impact on growth
Cantu, Catalina - In: Journal of Economic Structures 6 (2017) 33, pp. 1-26
be a promoter for growth. This paper benchmarks Mexico's infrastructure quantity stocks and identifies Mexico … methodology, and finally, (3) calculating Mexico's infrastructure gap compared to region leaders. The main findings indicate that … Mexico's infrastructure stocks were the lowest compared to similar countries in 1990. In 2010, Mexico improved its …
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Public debt, public investment and economic growth in Mexico
Sánchez-Juárez, Isaac; García-Almada, Rosa - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 4 (2016) 2, pp. 1-14
The primary objective of this article is to answer the following two research questions: has the growing public debt of state governments promoted increased public investment? If the answer is yes, then does any increase in public investment lead to more growth in the Mexican states? Dynamic...
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Capital Augmenting and Labor Augmenting Approach in Measuring Contribution of Human Capital and Education to Economic Growth
Popović, Milenko - In: Montenegrin Journal of Economics 2 (2006) 4, pp. 71-108
In this paper an effort has been made to unveil some hidden and implicit assumptions that has been used in different models dealing with analysis and measurement of contribution of human capital to economic growth. We start from general production function with heterogeneous labor input and...
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Humankapital und endogenes Wachstum
Homburg, Stefan - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften 115 (1995) 3, pp. 339-366
In the paper a growth model is developed which admits endogenous growth. Endogenous growth is due to simultaneous efficient accumulation of physical as well as human capital. In contrast to similar growth models, we assume that output can be transformed into either physical or human capital...
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Educational stock and economic growth: The case of Greece over the period 1981-2009
Pegkas, Panagiotis - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 62 (2012) 1/2, pp. 56-71
This paper examines the impact of education on economic growth in Greece over the period 1981 - 2009 by applying the model with two sectors introduced by Lucas (1988). The findings of the empirical analysis reveal that there is no long-run relation between educational stock and output. In the...
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Theoretical and methodological aspects of innovation development in modern economic systems
Gashenko, Irina V.; Vokina, Svetlana G.; Romanov, Dmitry G. - In: Contemporary Economics 10 (2016) 4, pp. 363-372
The purpose of this article is to classify existing approaches to analyzing theoretical and methodological aspects of innovation development in modern economic systems. We also present a new approach based on existing ones that combines advantages, eliminates drawbacks, and offers means of...
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