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Zur Angleichung von Einkommen und Lebensqualität im vereinigten Deutschland
Goebel, Jan; Habich, Roland; Krause, Peter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 2, pp. 122-145
Der Übergang zur Marktwirtschaft erfolgte in Ostdeutschland im Unterschied zu anderen osteuropäischen Staaten unter dem Primat der sozialpolitischen Angleichung der Lebensbedingungen an das höhere Wohlstandsniveau der westlichen Bundesländer. Bezüglich der Wohlstandsentwicklung wie auch der...
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Occupational Mobility, Educational Mobility and Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantages in Europe
Želinský, Tomáš; Mysíková, Martina; Večerník, Jiří - In: Ekonomický časopis / Journal of Economics 64 (2016) 3, pp. 197-217
Empirical literature offers a number of studies suggesting that living conditions in childhood can significantly influence achievements and living conditions in adulthood. The aim of this paper is to answer the question: To what extent is the intergenerational transmission of poverty associated...
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Supporting the UN SDGs transition: Methodology for sustainability assessment and current worldwide ranking
Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; Farnia, Luca; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-10, pp. 1-19
steps: screening of indicators capable of addressing the UN's SDGs; data collection from relevant sources; organization into … 26 indicators into composite indices by pillars as well as in a multi-dimensional index. The final ranking includes 139 …
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Migration, cultural identity and diasporas: An identity economics approach
Prinz, Aloys; Siegel, Melissa - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 10 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20
Besides effects on economic well-being, migration of people with distant cultural backgrounds may also have large … well-being and cultural identity. The migration effect on cultural identity depends, among others, on the distance between …
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Assessment of economic security of households based on a scenario analysis
Kośny, Marek; Piotrowska, Maria - In: Economies 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-20
The article proposes a method to assess the level of economic security, based on the analysis of scenarios of future events. These scenarios cover realistically possible combinations of future events, both positive and negative, allowing for an assessment of their financial implications. The...
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Infrastructure and subjective well-being from a gender perspective
Alarcón García, Gloria; Buendía Azorín, José Daniel; … - In: Administrative Sciences 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22
infrastructures on well-being by gender, applying the Capability and Subjective Well-being approaches. An index of access to … infrastructure is constructed and its effect on well-being is estimated using a new survey dataset from Spain. The results from the … logistic regression model show that access to infrastructure positively affects subjective well-being, particularly of female …
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Algoritmic methods for segmentation of time series: An overview
Lovrić, Miodrag; Milanović, Marina; Stamenković, Milan - In: Journal of Contemporary Economic and Business Issues 1 (2014) 1, pp. 31-53
Adaptive and innovative application of classical data mining principles and techniques in time series analysis has resulted in development of a concept known as time series data mining. Since the time series are present in all areas of business and scientific research, attractiveness of mining...
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Developing an online collaborative system within the domain of financial auditing
Năstase, Pavel; Eni, Lucian Cristian - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 17 (2015) 39, pp. 823-835
The research paper, focused on a rather technical approach, has the goal to design a system that brings together diverse audit stakeholders and investigates how an audit database available online can be implemented in SharePoint, as part of an on-line audit system which is collaborative and...
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Bankruptcy prediction and stress quantification using support vector machine: Evidence from Indian banks
Shrivastava, Santosh Kumar; Ramudu, P. Janaki - In: Risks 8 (2020) 2, pp. 1-22
Banks play a vital role in strengthening the financial system of a country; hence, their survival is decisive for the stability of national economies. Therefore, analyzing the survival probability of the banks is an essential and continuing research activity. However, the current literature...
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Using Numbers to Persuade: Hidden Rhetoric of Statistics
Basci, Sidika; Hassan, Nadia - In: International Econometric Review (IER) 12 (2020) 1, pp. 75-97
Philosophy of current knowledge distinguishes facts from values. It maintains that facts are objective, indisputable, universally verifiable and do not require to persuade. Since rhetoric is persuasion it is assumed to be deceptive and overlook reality. Therefore, statistics in its current form...
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