This paper analyses wage dynamics at individual level using the European Community Household Panel data. We compare yearly wage changes of full-time employees staying in the same ...rm for twelve European countries during the 1994-96 time-period. For all the European countries we ...nd evidence of nominal wage rigidity. The percentage of employees receiving no wage changes is di¤erent across co...

The very unfavorable infant mortality ranking of the United States in international comparisons is often used to question the quality of health care there. Infant mortality rates, however, implicitly capture a complicated story, measuring much more than differences in health care across countries. This article examines reasons behind international infant mortality rate rankings, including varia...

This study aims to compare customer perceptions about service quality of real estate brokerage firms in Thailand and Taiwan by using Parasuraman’s SERVQUAL scale. The results indicated that: (1) all five dimensions of SERVQUAL scale have significant impacts on consumer perception in both countries; (2) the five dimensions’ weight ranking order is not the same in both countries; and (3) There wa...

With limited international resources for family planning, donors must decide how to allocate their funds to different countries. How can a donor for family planning decide whether countries are adequately prioritized for funding? This article proposes an ordinal ranking framework to identify under-prioritized countries by rank-ordering countries by their need for family planning and separately ...

assessment of women's status entails calculating various indices from different fields including scientific, economic, social and political. calculating these factors and comparing them with that of male indicates a country's development and progress level thus determines their position in the world ranking as compared to other countries. although assessment of women's status in ...

The paper suggests a new approach to performance evaluation of universities in Russia and worldwide based on aggregation the results ten global rankings Database External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR). method league analysis (MetALeague) allows authors integrate diverse ranking regardless considerable variations methodology indicators. As result MetALeague integration, Global Aggregated Ran...

PURPOSE The aim was to verify if changing the Journal of Gastric Cancer (JGC) to only English (starting in December 2010) was successful based on bibliometrics. MATERIALS AND METHODS The following indicators were retrieved or calculated from the journal homepage and the Web of Science Core Collection on January 30, 2016: the number of citable articles per year; the number of original articles...

A recent UNICEF report offers the first multi-dimensional overview of children’s and adolescents’ well-being for rich OECD countries (UNICEF, 2007). The Netherlands scored the highest overall on UNICEF’s multidimensional scale that provides a broad picture of child and adolescent well-being, while the United Kingdom scored the lowest among the 21 countries that were ranked. The report notes dif...

The Library of Babel, described by Jorge Luis Borges, stores an enormous amount of information. The Library exists ab aeterno. Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia, becomes a modern analogue of such a Library. Information retrieval and ranking of Wikipedia articles become the challenge of modern society. While PageRank highlights very well known nodes with many ingoing links, CheiRank highlig...

With the increase need of using the Internet in most domains, and the increasing number of users whom use it, the need of accessible and usable sites also increased for both users with or without disabilities. Also, due to the high competitive rivalry between search engines in ranking results and disparity of ranking techniques, webmasters should know about search engine guidelines related to t...