The importance of ports is usually measured by indicators such as added value, employment and investment on a much aggregated level. This paper tries to define the importance of the port of Antwerp for the regional and national economy on a disaggregated level. It attempts to identify, quantify...

The maritime sector is undergoing constant change, as is particularly apparent in the shift in competition that has unfolded in recent years. Whereas in the past shipowners and ports used to compete with one another, the competitive struggle is now increasingly unfolding at the level of...

Many national and international bodies, such as the European Commission, encourage the use of environment-friendly transport modes. Local and national authorities take more and more measures, for instance road pricing, loading/unloading spaces and low-emission zones, to prevent negative...

The economic impact of the port sector is usually measured at an aggregate level by indicators such as value added, employment and investment. This paper tries to define the economic relevance for the regional as well as for the national economy at a disaggregate level. It attempts to identify,...

In a discrete choice experiment, each respondent chooses the best product or service sequentially from many groups or choice sets of alternative goods. The alternatives are described by levels of a set of predefined attributes and are also referred to as profiles. Respondents often find it...

Angesichts der deutlichen Veränderungen, die mit der digitalen Transformation der Berufs- und Arbeitswelt an die Gestaltung der Berufsbildung herangetragen werden, stand das betriebliche Ausbildungspersonal im Fokus des BIBB-Forschungsprojekts "Digitale Medien in der betrieblichen Berufsbildung...

Duale Studiengänge sind innovative Angebote an der Schnittstelle von beruflicher und hochschulischer Bildung. Durch ihre unternehmensnahe Ausrichtung und ihre in den letzten Jahren stark gewachsene Bedeutung für die betriebliche Personalentwicklung unterliegen sie ständigen...

This study is a publication issued by the Microeconomic Analysis service of the National Bank of Belgium, in partnership with the Department of Transport and Regional Economics of the University of Antwerp (UA). It is the outcome of a first research project on the Belgian airport and air...

We present a unified structural equation modelling framework for the regression-based decomposition of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural equation modelling framework forms the basis for a...