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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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The Association Between Own Unemployment and Violence Victimization Among Female Youths
Tertilt, Michèle; Berg, Gerard J. van den - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 4-5, pp. 499-516
Summary We estimate the association between the unemployment status of young women and the probability that they are subject to violence, using Swedish population register data covering the period 1999-2008. These data contain the highest-level classification of diagnoses made by medical experts...
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Perspectives on “marginal crisis risk” and “leaning against the wind” from the capital structure of housing investments
Arne Borgersen, Trond - In: Journal of Financial Economic Policy 5 (2013) 3, pp. 272-280
/methodology/approach – Framed in terms of the housing market and household behaviour, the paper sets out an augmented loss function which takes a …
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Between need and innovative challenge: observations on female solo self-employment
Bögenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 10 (2016) 1, pp. 16-32
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to discuss the ongoing increase of female entrepreneurship within a broader context of influencing factors, especially within the division of work. Talk about the rise and future of self-employment must be linked to the discussion about changes in the...
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An empirical analysis of factors that determine poverty among the beneficiaries of Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund
Yusuf, Muhammad-Bashir Owolabi; Shirazi, Nasim Shah; … - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 10 (2016) 3, pp. 306-320
Purpose This study aims to examine the determinants of poverty among microcredit beneficiaries in Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on a nationwide survey of microcredit beneficiaries of Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. Using the national poverty...
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GMM-based visual attention for target selection of indoor robotic tasks
Liu, Dong; Cong, Ming; Du, Yu; W. de Silva, Clarence - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 40 (2013) 6, pp. 583-596
Purpose – Indoor robotic tasks frequently specify objects. For these applications, this paper aims to propose an object-based attention method using task-relevant feature for target selection. The task-relevant feature(s) are deduced from the learned object representation in semantic memory...
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The relationship between consumer characteristics and mortgage preferences
Hullgren, Maria; Söderberg, Inga‐Lill - In: International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 6 (2013) 2, pp. 209-230
effects of education, income and risk aversion on household mortgage decisions are investigated. In addition, consumers … greater extent and, thereby, make future expenditures more predictable for the single household by reducing liquidity risks …
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Determinants of housing demand in the Erzurum province, Turkey
Oktay, Erkan; Karaaslan, Abdulkerim; Alkan, Ömer; … - In: International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 7 (2014) 4, pp. 586-602
socio-economic factors that may possibly influence housing demand of the respondents are as follows: household head’s and …
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Determinants of household health expenditure in Nigeria
Olasehinde, Noah; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 12, pp. 1694-1709
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of health expenditure at the household level in … Nigeria with specific focus on the household and individual unique characteristics. It presents some stylised facts about the … Nigerian health system and its financing options. It went further to show that household is the major financial organ of …
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Households: a systematic unit of analysis through history
Kaufman‐Scarborough, Carol - In: Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 3 (2011) 1, pp. 76-95
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend and apply the systems model of the household proposed by Dixon, his … consumer studies of homeless persons published by Ronald Hill and his colleagues. Findings – The same household systems models … might be used to unfold the complex problems that can undermine the functioning in a household, causing it to be …
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