were used to extend policycapturing research concerning employment discrimination case law. TWo-hundred ninety-five usable U.S. Circuit Court decisions concerning performance appraisal were located from 1980-1995. In both chisquare and multivariate LOGIT analyses‚ decisions were explained by: use of job analysis‚ provision of written instructions‚ employee review of results‚ and agreement among raters. Contrary to hypotheses‚ appraisal frequency and type (traits vs. behaviors or results) were unrelated
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The Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment Dr. Thomas A. Mroz and Dr. Timothy H. Savage University of North Carolina‚ Chapel Hill and Welch Consulting Economists A STUDY BY THE EMPLOYMENT POLICIES INSTITUTE October 2001 he Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is a nonprofit research organization dedicated to studying public policy issues surrounding employment growth. In particular‚ EPI research focuses on issues that affect entry-level employment. Among other issues‚ EPI research has quantified
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Jonathan Levin Di¤erentiated Products Demand Systems (A) Jonathan Levin Economics 257 Stanford University Fall 2009 Demand Estimation Fall 2009 1 / 27 Di¤erentiated Products Demand - Outline Overview Supply side Product space Characteristic space Recent developments Class Discussion Jonathan Levin Demand Estimation Fall 2009 2 / 27 Why do we care? Products in almost all markets are di¤erentiated to some extent. Products di¤er in their physical characteristics
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INFLUENTAL FACTORS ON BRAND CHOICE AND CONSUMPTION BEHAVIORS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON COLLEGE STUDENTS AND BEER By DAVE RITTER A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULLFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ADVERTISING UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2008 1 © 2008 Dave Ritter 2 To my family‚ friends‚ educators‚ and colleagues‚ cheers! Without your love‚ support‚ and guidance none of this would be possible. 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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The nature and importance of the problem were also a factor for consideration in designing the research design. This research stemmed from the problem‚ which states that there is an unequal representation in the political participation level among Whites‚ Blacks‚ Hispanics‚ and Asians (Liu et al.‚ 2009). And that democracy and political representation require Blacks‚ Hispanics‚ and Asians to participate electorally and to be equally represented. The researchers of this study feel that this research
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in cents for mode k WAGE: wage rate in cents/min AUTOS: auto ownership ak : 0.0‚ +3.0‚ +0.3 for k=1‚2‚3‚ respectively bk : -0.03‚ +0.03‚ +0.05 for k=1‚2‚3‚ respectively (a) 試討論效用函數中各係數符號與係數值大小所代表的意義 (彈性、時間價值)。 (b) 試由效用函數中係數值,推估需求彈性? (c) 試以下列資料,應用 Logit Model 估算各社經群組(groups 1‚ 2‚ 3)之 各運具分配(modal split)的機率為何? 並討論運具分配結果。 e U m Pm e U k all k Mode characteristics k=1 (drive-alone) k=2 (shared-ride) k=3 (transit) Socio-economic group Group 1 (white-collar) Group 2 (blue-collar) Group 3 (captive)
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INTRODUCTION Since the late 80s‚ brand equity (BE) has been regarded as one important marketing concept in both business practice and academic research as it gives marketers more competitive advantage through successful brands (Lassar‚ Mittal‚ & Sharma‚ 1995‚ p. 11). Although there are many researches about brand equity carried on by numbers of authors‚ most of their conclusions are consistent with Farquhar’s concept of brand equity as “the value added by the brand to the product” (Srinivasan
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iMIT Sloan School of Management MIT Sloan Working Paper 4467-04 February 2004 Investment Banking and Analyst Objectivity: Evidence from Forecasts and Recommendations of Analysts Affiliated with M&A Advisors Adam Kolasinski and S.P. Kothari © 2004 by Adam Kolasinski and S.P. Kothari. All rights reserved. Short sections of text‚ not to exceed two paragraphs‚ may be quoted without explicit permission‚ provided that full credit including © notice is given to the source. This paper also
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OR Spektrum (2000) 22: 5–18 c Springer-Verlag 2000 Marketing and operations research – a literature survey ¨ Marketing und Operations Research – Eine Literaturubersicht Lutz Hildebrandt1 ‚ Udo Wagner2 1 Institut f¨ur Marketing‚ Humboldt-Universit¨at zu Berlin‚ Spandauer Straße 1‚ 10178 Berlin‚ Germany (e-mail: hildebr@wiwi.hu-berlin.de) 2 Institut f¨ur Betriebswirtschaftslehre‚ Universit¨at Wien‚ Br¨unner Straße 72‚ 1210 Vienna‚ Austria (e-mail: udo.wagner@univie.ac.at) Abstract. Over the last
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