1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462513603321

Titolo

Inequality, mobility, and segregation [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honor of Jacques Silber / / editors, John A. Bishop, Rafael Salas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, UK, : Emerald, 2012

ISBN

1-283-63506-2

1-78190-171-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (439 p.)

Collana

Research on economic inequality ; ; v. 20

Altri autori (Persone)

BishopJohn A

SalasRafael

SilberJacques

Disciplina

339.2

339.4

Soggetti

Income distribution

Distribution (Economic theory)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Selected conference papers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

FRONT COVER; INEQUALITY, MOBILITY AND SEGREGATION: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JACQUES SILBER; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 1 MEASURING SEGREGATION: BASIC CONCEPTS AND EXTENSIONS TO OTHER DOMAINS; INTRODUCTION: ON ''LATERAL THINKING''; BASIC CONCEPTS: MEASURING SEGREGATION WHEN THERE ARE ONLY TWO GROUPS; THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF SEGREGATION; MEASURING SPATIAL SEGREGATION; MEASURES OF ORDINAL SEGREGATION; EXTENSIONS TO OTHER DOMAINS: SEGREGATION AND INEQUALITY IN LIFE CHANCES; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES

CHAPTER 2 OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION MEASURES: A ROLE FOR STATUSINTRODUCTION; BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION; LOCAL SEGREGATION MEASURES: THE STATUS OF OCCUPATIONS; AN ILLUSTRATION: OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION BY RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE UNITED STATES; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A: PROOF OF PROPOSITION 1; CHAPTER 3 OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION OF AFRO-LATINOS; INTRODUCTION;



DATA; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION OF AFRO-LATINOS IN SELECTED COUNTRIES; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION IN BRAZIL; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES

CHAPTER 4 MULTIGROUP SEGREGATION PATTERNS AND DETERMINANTS: THE CASE OF IMMIGRANTS IN AN ITALIAN CITYINTRODUCTION; DATA: IMMIGRANTS IN VERONA; A MODEL FOR SEGREGATION PATTERNS; RESULTS; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5 EQUAL-EQUIVALENTS FOR INEQUALITY, WELFARE, AND LIBERTY: CONCEPTS AND POLICY; SUMMARY; SITUATION; ORDERING, EQUAL-EQUIVALENTS; WELFARE; MACROJUSTICE; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6 INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS FOR POLICY IMPACT ANALYSIS; INTRODUCTION; DIRECTIONAL DERIVATIVES OF DISTRIBUTIONAL STATISTICS; INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS AND RECENTERED INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS

CONCLUSIONNOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B: DISTRIBUTIONAL STATISTICS AND THEIR RECENTERED INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS IN TABULAR FORM; CHAPTER 7 A NOTE ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL DISTRIBUTION-SENSITIVE POVERTY AXIOMS; INTRODUCTION; NOTATION AND BASIC DEFINITIONS; THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL MONOTONICITY SENSITIVITY AND MINIMAL TRANSFER AXIOMS; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8 CONVERGENCE CLUB EMPIRICS: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN STATES; INTRODUCTION; SOME BASIC STATISTICS; THE DISTRIBUTION DYNAMICS APPROACH

WHAT EXPLAINS POLARISATION? THE ROLE OF MACRO-ECONOMIC FACTORSCONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A: STATES USED IN THE STUDY; APPENDIX B: THE DISTRIBUTION DYNAMICS APPROACH; APPENDIX C: CONDITIONING RESULTS; CHAPTER 9 THE EU-WIDE EARNINGS DISTRIBUTION; INTRODUCTION; THE EU-SILC DATA ON EARNINGS; EARNINGS DISTRIBUTIONS IN EU COUNTRIES; THE EU-WIDE DISTRIBUTION OF GROSS EARNINGS; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10 EARNINGS MOBILITY, EARNINGS INEQUALITY, AND LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS IN EUROPE; INTRODUCTION; DATA; METHODOLOGY; CHANGES IN EARNINGS INEQUALITY

SHORT-TERM MOBILITY OVER TIME AND ITS LINKS WITH CROSS-SECTIONAL AND SHORT-TERM INEQUALITY

Sommario/riassunto

This volume honors the lifetime and continuing contributions of Professor Jacques Silber. The book contains 15 papers, which were presented at the Fourth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Catania, Sicily, July 2011. Theoretical topics covered in Volume 20 include measuring segregation, welfare and liberty, the use of influence functions in distributional analysis, and the axiomatic approach to multidimensional inequality. Empirical studies include occupational and residential segregation, regional convergence, impact of variable of equivalence scales on income inequa



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Record Nr.

UNISA996465415003316

Titolo

Computational Logistics [[electronic resource] ] : 8th International Conference, ICCL 2017, Southampton, UK, October 18-20, 2017, Proceedings / / edited by Tolga Bektaş, Stefano Coniglio, Antonio Martinez-Sykora, Stefan Voß

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-68496-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 588 p. 129 illus.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 10572

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

Algorithms

Application software

Software engineering

Artificial intelligence

Computer simulation

Information technology—Management

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Software Engineering

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Modelling

Computer Application in Administrative Data Processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Vehicle routing and scheduling -- Maritime logistics -- Synchromodal transportation -- Transportation, logistics and supply chain planning.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2017, held in Southampton, UK, in October 2017. The 38 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. They are organized in topical sections entitled: vehicle routing and scheduling; maritime logistics; synchromodal transportation; and transportation, logistics and supply chain planning.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783214003321

Titolo

Improving organisational performance [[electronic resource] /] / Editor: Gerald Vinten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005

ISBN

1-280-50874-4

9786610508747

1-84544-288-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (110 p.)

Collana

Managerial auditing journal ; ; v.20, no. 4

Altri autori (Persone)

VintenGerald

Disciplina

658/.4013

Soggetti

Auditing, Internal

Management audit

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Costing in new enterprise environment; Statistical thinking and its role for industrial engineers and managers in the 21st century; Quality audits: their status, prowess and future focus; Interactive organizational commitment and hardiness in public accountants' turnover; Implementing integration of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 for construction; E-commerce impact: emerging technology - electronic auditing; Individual learning and organization culture in learning organizations

Sommario/riassunto

Accounting has become the most intellectually challenging area in the field of management,and the most turbulent one. All these new accounting theories aim at turning the accountingdata into information for management decision-making.