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). Although having an international audit firm is the dominant factor associated with disclosure and measurement …
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There has been an increasing dispersion in earnings observed in many OECD countries over the last two decades along with shedding of low skill workers and increased demand for skilled workers. This has been attributed to a number of diffent causes including skill-biased technological change. In...
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This paper considers the measurement of poverty in the European Union (EU). Starting from a definition of poverty that … is suitable for the European context, a flexible measurement framework is proposed based on the Foster …-Greer-Thorbecke class of poverty measures. Three key issues need to be addressed in the measurement of poverty. First, one has to determine …
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considerable measurement problems involved in the economic analysis of the phenomenon. However, the distinction between work …
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measurement should be added to the traditional picture. According to the classical view, measuring an object consists of assessing …, and Walras understood measurement in the classical sense and applied this understanding to utility measurement; therefore … importance they attributed to measurement, their classical understanding of it, and the apparent immeasurability of the utility …
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the first and second-order factor loadings and measurement error terms are invariant over time. Second, a largely … survey reveal that the first and second-order factor loadings are invariant of time. Moreover, the second-order measurement … error terms, but not the first-order measurement error terms, are invariant, as well. The results further reveal that …
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This article describes the development of an instrument to measure the quality of managerial learning on the job. The instrument can be used to analyse the quality of the individual learning process on the job. The literature shows that two factors determine the quality of the learning process;...
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measurement, not changes in real financial flows. Second, we show that even if these increases were correctly measured, cross …
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Disclosure of HIV status has been the focus of three decades of research, which have revealed its complex relations to many behaviors involved in HIV prevention and treatment, and exposed its central role in managing the HIV epidemic. The causes and consequences of disclosure acts have recently...
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This study investigates the coefficient of variation (CV) of height of males and females as a measure of inequality. We have collected a data set on corresponding male and female height CVs from 124 populations, spanning the period between the 1840s and 1980s. The results suggest that the R2...
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