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The article presents the problem of the application of spatial weight matrix based on economic distance in spatial analysis of the intersectoral mobility of labor and wage. The spatial weight matrix expresses potential s...

The paper aims to analyse the trends in mortality of men and women aged 65 and more in the Lodz region in the period 1999–2013, with particular emphasis on the phenomenon of excess male mortality. A complete database o...

The insurance system is a very important element of the financial system of a state. As institutions of public trust, insurance companies play an important role in the process of transforming savings into investments, wh...

The main aim of this article is to verify the research hypothesis stating that in most employee-owned companies the growth in concentration of ownership is accompanied by the decrease in profitability of assets. Empirica...

This paper investigates empirically the links between the specific solutions of corporate governance in portfolio companies of private equity funds and the duration of divestment process after the first listing of compan...

The main objective of this article is to prepare a hierarchy and typology of rural areas in Poland showing the level of the human capital indicator and his spatial disparities in the context of educational factors. Selec...

Due to the rapid growth of significance of sustainable development in recent years, there have been many ideas regarding the practical application of environmental and social concepts in business management. Many of thes...

In this paper, some aspects of design optimality on the basis of spring balance weighing designs are considered. The properties of D‑optimal and D‑efficiency designs are studied. The necessary and sufficient conditio...

Polish population is getting older and the consequences of this process are already affecting our everyday life. The purpose of this work is to identify factors (and direction of their influence) which will help to expla...

We consider the problem of the estimation of the mean squared error (MSE) of some domain mean predictor for Fay‑Herriot model. In the simulation study we analyze properties of eight MSE estimators including estimators ...

This study aims to analyze the relations between the institutional investors’ share in the ownership structure and the operation of publicly-traded companies, in particular, their financial standing and value. It prese...

In the paper, a selection of statistical tests for median are presented. In particular, parametric and nonparametric significance tests are considered. In the case of parametric tests the critical regions are constructed...

The main aim of the article was to analyse the changes in the Polish population structure observed since the political transformation and expected in the next few years. The analysis focused also on the spatial different...

The article aims to investigate which performance indicators are revealed in strategic reports of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange whether they can constitute relevant source of information to evaluate compa...

The article is focused on the problem of elasticity of employment in the economies of the European Union new member states in 2000–2014. Special attention is given to the role of types of employment contracts and their...

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In statistical literature there exist many tests to reveal the independence of two qualitative variables in two‑way contingency tables (CTs), in particular in 2×2 CTs. In this paper four independence tests were compar...

In the report about effectiveness of selected Active Labor Market Programs (ALMP) published in 2015 by the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) one can find conclusions which may indicate the occurrence possibility of the performa...

During the conference entitled Spatial Econometrics and Regional Economic Analyses, which took place in Lodz in 2014, there was a proposition to introduce the spatial coherence property into the Ward method, which is app...

The author of this paper has demonstrated that in the period of the ongoing globalization new challenges regarding the creation of competitiveness have appeared. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the need for a n...

Measurement of household endowment with durables is crucial in many aspects of assessing the social and economic situation of a country and its citizens. The demand (sales) for durables is regarded as one of the key indi...