Essays about: "1960-2008"

Found 2 essays containing the word 1960-2008.

1. 1. A new index of welfare - An econometric approach on a new index of welfare generated with principal component analysis

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Johan Edfeldt; [2010]
   Keywords : Welfare; Well-being; Principal Component Analysis PCA ; Cluster analysis; 1960-2008; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to generate a wider measurement of welfare by carefully chosen variables in mainly three different areas: economic, socio-economic and environment in order to generate a welfare index which describes the world yesterday, today and tomorrow. Method: With the Principal Component Analysis 14 variables from 115 coun-tries are studied and verified and analyzed with regression models, clus-ter analysis and time series analysis. READ MORE

3. 2. Assessment and empirical analysis of Finland emigration in response to Selected economic Pull-Push deriving forces: 1960-2008

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Tamrat Wube Liyew; [2010]
   Keywords : time series analysis; Finland emigrants; push-pull economic forces; OLS; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact, in magnitude and direction, of some preliminary push-pull economic forces on the decision of Finland people to migrate to Sweden in the time period 1960-2009. It also aims to see how different people respond to those forces active based on their sex, marital status and age, 15-30 and 50-65 and strives to oversee which economic factors were more affecting and which were not, which particular forces, push or pull economic determinants, tend Finns to migrate to Sweden. READ MORE