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Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates Are Defined

Light, Audrey; McGee, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how one defines the career start date and, in turn, measures cumulative work experience. Arcidiacono, Bayer, and Hizmo (2010) find evidence of employer learning for high school graduates but not for college graduates,...

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APPLYING NEW DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS IN HISTORICAL CITY CORES IN THE ADRIATIC REGION

Nardin, Radivoj; Bajor, Peter; Fejes, Csilla - In: Business Logistics in Modern Management 14 (2014), pp. 141-146

the main challenges,our preliminary findings and our research methodology, we propose a logistics solution- namely the …

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Measuring a New Aspect of Ethnicity - The Appropriate Diversity Index

Kolo, Philipp - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2012

Combined with the expansion of economic literature on the role of ethnicity, new indices were developed to do justice to its complexity. The current indices are generally based on pre-defined groups, disregarding the (dis)similarities between them. This is sufficient to calculate the most common...

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Measurement Error Properties in an Accelerometer Sample of U.S. Elementary School Children

Beyler, Nicholas; James-Burdumy, Susanne; Bleeker, Martha; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

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Professional Practice, Student Surveys, and Value-Added: Multiple Measures of Teacher Effectiveness in the Pittsburgh Public Schools

Chaplin, Duncan; Gill, Brian; Thompkins, Allison; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

Responding to federal and state prompting, school districts across the country are implementing new teacher evaluation systems that aim to increase the rigor of evaluation ratings,better differentiate effective teaching, and support personnel and staff development initiatives that promote...

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Calibration of Self-Report Tools for Physical Activity Research: The Physical Activity Questionnaire (PAQ)

Saint-Maurice, Pedro F.; Welk, Gregory J.; Beyler, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

This study demonstrates the potential of calibrating self-reports of physical activity against objective measures of physical activity in youth, using a commonly used self-report tool called the Physical Activity Questionnaire.

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THE CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTS OF BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MEASUR?MENT

Krstiæ, Natasa Stojkoviæ - „Ekonomika“ Society of Economists, Niš (Serbia) - 2014

Business performance measurement plays a special role in improving the quality of decision-making and increasing … overall business efficiency. Performance measurement provides the information about the state of an organization as a system …, comprehensive, regular measurement of business performances, an organization would lose vital information for a continuous stream of …

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Focal Areas for Measuring the Human Well-Being Impacts of a Conservation Initiative

Leisher, Craig; Samberg, Leah H.; Buekering, Pieter Van; … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 3, pp. 997-1010

Within conservation, the need to measure the impacts on people from conservation initiatives such as projects and programs is growing, but understanding and measuring the multidimensional impacts on human well-being from conservation initiatives is complex. To understand the constituent...

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Development of an optimized artificial neural network model for combined heat and power micro gas turbines

Nikpey, H.; Assadi, M.; Breuhaus, P. - In: Applied Energy 108 (2013) C, pp. 137-148

consists of a modified engine with extended measurement points providing extensive data suitable for data-driven modeling. ANNs …

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Measuring Women Empowerment: Dissecting the Methodological Discourse

Vijayamohanan, Pillai N.; Asalatha, B. P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

As we move from the concept of empowerment to its measurement, it is natural that the complexity in the concept passes …

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