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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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Measuring Europe 2020: a new tool to assess the strategy
Pasimeni, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper aims at analysing the performances of the EU member states in the Europe 2020 Strategy and understanding the main factors of success. It builds on the Europe 2020 Index developed in Pasimeni (2011) to quantify and measure progress achieved by the 27 countries in pursuing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109968
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Digit Ratio Measurement Guide
Neyse, Levent; Brañas-Garza, Pablo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
about how to make an accurate measurement in such a delicate task. Along this brief document we offer some concise guidance … of how to scan the hands using digital scanners and provide a comprehensive guideline to make a reliable measurement of … the 2D:4D. Furthermore, we point out the most common imaging and measurement errors. We also provide a number of hints …
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Job quality in Europe in the first decade of the 21st Century
Fernández-Macías, Enrique; Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This article presents an analysis of the evolution of job quality from 2000 to 2010 in the European Union 15, using a newly developed composite measure of job quality that is applied to the European Working Conditions Survey. After a careful study of the evolution of job quality across the...
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When Category-based Indices Encounter Non-independent Categories: Solving the Taxonomy Issue in Resource-based Empirical Studies
Huo, Dong; Motohashi, Kazuyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
may fail to produce a valid measurement, and this unmeasured relatedness can result in endogeneity in empirical analyses …
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How NGOs approach resilience programming:
Frankenberger, Timothy R.; Constas, Mark A.; Nelson, Suzanne - In: Resilience for food and nutrition security
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A proposal for measuring resilience in a risky world:
Barrett, Christopher B.; Headey, Derek D. - In: Resilience for food and nutrition security
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An approach to consensus measurement of linguistic preference relations in multi-attribute group decision making and application
Sun, Bingzhen; Ma, Weimin - In: Omega 51 (2015) C, pp. 83-92
This paper studies the group decision making problem with linguistic preference relations. We first study the consensus measure between the individual preference relations and the collective (group) preference relation by defining the concept of degree of similarity between two linguistic values...
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Interpretations of «equal opportunity» in practice: Comparing the feasibility of divergent concepts
Robert, Kappius - In: Rivista italiana degli economisti (2013) 2, pp. 227-252
Within the notion «equality of opportunity» («EOp»), diverse conceptualizations competefor the privilege of interpretation. Although these concepts may adapt to various normative attitudes, theytacitly express divergent fundamental positions for interpreting «EOp». Which concept to choose?...
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A Review of the Study “Measurement and Analysis of Corruption Using Objective Data” by T. V. Natkhov and L. I. Polischuk
Aymaliev, Ivan - In: Journal of Economic Sociology 16 (2015) 1, pp. 110-114
The purchase of “beautiful” car registration plates from state authorities is legal in many developed democracies. However, in Russia this practice is strictly prohibited. Anecdotal evidences suggest that Russians circumvent the law by bribery or blat. Given the ambiguous nature of informal...
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