Offers a theoretical and empirical perspective on the value, potential and contribution that qualitative research methodologies bring to the analysis of housing policy issues within an international context. This book also includes discussion of specific methodological challenges and ethical...

The long-term impact of globalization, outsourcing, and technological change on workers is increasingly being studied by economists. At the nexus of labor economics, industry studies, and industrial organization, The Analysis of Firms and Employees presents new findings about these impacts by...

This note formally investigates the applicability of stochastic dominance (Lorenz dominance) to ordinal data such as self-reported health status. We confirm that for ordinal data distributions, stochastic dominance has limited applicability in ranking social welfare, while it has no...

Qualitative Marktforschung in Theorie und Praxis -- Optionen für die Marketingforschung durch die Nutzung qualitativer Methodologie und Methodik -- Der Beitrag qualitativer Methodologie und Methodik zur Marktforschung -- Zur Bedeutung qualitativer Methodik in der Marktforschungspraxis --...