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Value-based management education : the case of health care management course
Dimovski, Vlado; Peterlin, Judita; Grah, Barbara; … - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 5 (2019) 1, pp. 287-297
The paper presents educational and teaching change by discussing the results of our study of management education in … perceptions of role models, management and decision-making patterns. Decision-making in health care demands risk management …, crisis management, precision and good knowledge of personal abilities and values. Many of our health care students will after …
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[Predicting GDP of 289 NUTS regions in Europe with 'subjective' indicators for human and social capital]
Weckroth, Mikko; Kemppainen, Teemu; Sørensen, Jens … - 2015
Most of the aggregate level analyses on the relationship between objective and subjective measures for well-being have limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in...
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Determinants of mobile broadband use in developing economies : evidence from Nigeria
Hasbi, Maude; Dubusy, Antoine - 2019 - Preliminary version, incomplete
Using micro-level data coming from household surveys over 5 years, from 2013 to 2017, we analyse what are the determinants of mobile broadband adoption in developing economies. We provide empirical evidence on the presence of a learning effect stemming from mobile money use, which by providing a...
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Determinants of mobile broadband use in developing economies : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Hasbi, Maude; Dubus, Antoine - 2019
Broadband is seen as a vector of economic growth and social development. In the developing world, mobile technologies are widely adopted and mobile broadband is progressively rolled-out with high expectations on its impact on the countries' development. We highlight what the determinants of...
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Sitting in the same boat : subjective well-being and social comparison after an extreme weather event
Fluhrer, Svenja; Schindler, Kati - 2021
How does subjective well-being depend on the fate of others when a covariate shock strikes? In this paper, we address this question by providing novel evidence on the impact of shock-induced damages experienced by individuals and their reference group on life satisfaction. We do so by examining...
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A comparison of grading models for neighborhood level of family housing units
Mert, Zeynep Gamze; Yilmaz, Serhat; Mert, Ertan - 2011
More recently Turkey has witnessed fast housing development and real estate sector growth because of the mortgage preparations. With this development, property location quality has been considered important for selecting and paying them. This study uses a data set of new single family housing...
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Can urban renewal policies reverse ethnic tipping points?
González Pampillon, Nicolas; Jofre-Monseny, Jordi; … - 2015
Economist has traditionally been skeptical about the potential effects of place-based policies. Some authors (see, e.g., Overman and Nathan, 2013, and Kline and Moretti, 2014) argued that place-based policies are an imperfect solution to deal with social problems, for many reasons. First,...
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Ageing by feet? : regional migration, neighbourhood choice and local demographic change in German cities : presented at ERSA 2015 (Lisbon)
Neumann, Uwe - 2015 - Preliminary draft
In the literature on the economics of demographic change so far the regional and neighbourhood-level consequences were out of the main focus. Yet, regional migration accentuates diversity in the progress of ageing. In fact, while households are known to "vote with their feet" when they choose a...
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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16
This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high-resolution geo-coded plant-level panel data for Swedish cities...
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Distinctively different : a new approach to valuing architectural amenities
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Holman, Nancy - 2015
We propose a method to estimate the capitalized value of the architectural design quality of a neighbourhood. Our economic design premium is identified by spatially differentiating property prices and design quality within neighbourhoods and comparing the differences across neighbourhoods. We...
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