Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Predictors of Employability of the Graduates of Technological Institute of the Philippines Quezon City

Graduates are faced with the challenge of acquiring employment right after graduation. It is paramount that they should have gained the best knowledge and skills in their field of specialization before plunging into any workplace of their choice. A school plays a very important role in providing higher education courses to students who will eventually become graduates with full competence in their fields of study. A graduate who leaves the sanctuary of the academe desire to find the best employment out there in the job market. However, a job seeker's desire for the best job is hampered by lack of basic skills relevant to the job, lack of experience, poor communication and social skills and among others. Graduate related factors, competencies learned in college, mode of job search and career-choice related factors can be considered as predictors of employability of graduates. Age, civil status, region of origin and educational attainment are graduate related factors that predict graduate employability. Competencies in human relations, communication and Information Technology serve as advantages to young graduates in looking for employment. Graduates who are recommended by someone and with strong passion for the profession immediately find employment. These predictors of employability once perfectly honed and acquired are answers to the issues that bedevil young graduates and job seekers.
Introducing the Distributional Financial Accounts of the United States

This paper describes the construction of the Distributional Financial Accounts (DFAs), a new dataset containing quarterly estimates of the distribution of U.S. household wealth since 1989, and provides the first look at the resulting data. The DFAs build on two existing Federal Reserve Board statistical products --- quarterly aggregate measures of household wealth from the Financial Accounts of the United States and triennial wealth distribution measures from the Survey of Consumer Finances --- to incorporate distributional information into a national accounting framework. The DFAs complement other existing sources of data on the wealth distribution by using a more comprehensive measure of household wealth and by providing quarterly data on a timely basis. We encourage policymakers, researchers, and other interested parties to use the DFAs to help understand issues related to the distribution of U.S. household wealth.
PENGARUH JUMLAH UANG BEREDAR,TINGKAT SUKU BUNGA DAN INFLASI TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI DI INDONESIA

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the money supply,interest rates, and inflation on economic growth in Indonesia. The dataanalysis method used is Multiple Linear Regression. The data used are timeseries data from 1999-2017 which were interpolated. The results partiallyshow that the money supply and inflation have a positive and significantinfluence on economic growth in Indonesia, while interest rates do not affecteconomic growth in Indonesia. Simultaneously the money supply, interestrates and inflation have a significant influence on economic growth inIndonesia
A review of “The political economy of housing financialization” By Gregory W. Fuller

The US subprime mortgage crisis, by nearly causing the collapse of the global financial system during the 2007-08 financial crisis, clearly revealed that household debt management is critical to the stability of the international economy. The configuration of mortgage finance systems of European economies, from the UK to Sweden to Spain, have profound effects on national macroeconomic and political outcomes. In this book, Gregory Fuller reveals how national housing systems diverge in terms of their commodification and financialization: mortgages are far more common in some systems than others; some encourage families to treat housing as a tradeable asset while others do not; and certain states provide extensive social housing programmes while others offer virtually none. These differences are shown to have an impact on households' economic precarity, macroeconomic volatility, and ultimately on their political preferences. Drawing on these comparisons, Fuller offers a number of policy suggestions intended to weaken the links between housing, economic instability, and inequality.
Social Sustainability Assessment in Livestock Production: A Social Life Cycle Assessment Approach

This study evaluates the social performance of monoculture (MC), intensive silvopastoral (ISP), and native silvopastoral (NSP) livestock production systems in the tropical region of southeastern Mexico through a social life cycle assessment (SCLA) approach. The methodological framework proposed by the United Nations Environmental Program/Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (UNEP/SETAC) (2009) was employed based on a scoring approach with a performance scale ranging from 1 (very poor) to 4 (outstanding). Twelve livestock ranches for calf production were evaluated using 18 impact subcategories associated with the categories “human rights”, “working conditions”, “health and safety”, “socioeconomic repercussions”, and “governance”. The stakeholders evaluated were workers, the local community, society, and value chain actors. The ranches had performance scores between 1.78 (very poor) and 2.17 (poor). The overall average performance of the ranches by production system was 1.98, 1.96, and 1.97 for the MC, ISP, and NSP systems, respectively. The statistical analysis shows that there is no significant difference in the social performance of the livestock production systems. This assessment indicates that the cattle ranches analyzed in Mexico have poor or very poor social performance. The results show that socioeconomic and political contexts exert a greater influence on the social performance of livestock production systems than does their type of technology.
Analysis of Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies in East Asia: Bayesian Approach Based on Open Economy DSGE Models

Analysis of Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies in East Asia: Bayesian Approach Based on Open Economy DSGE Models Jeonghoon Choi Department of Economics The Graduate School Seoul National University This dissertation consists of two chapters. Chapter I analyzes the monetary policy conducted by the central bank of Korea in relation to the 2008–2009 global financial crisis focusing on the reaction of the policy interest rate to nominal exchange rate movements. In chapter II, I additionally experiment the role of central banks’ foreign exchange intervention (FX-Intervention) policy considering two more countries in East Asia; Philippines and Thailand for their inflation targeting periods. In both chapters, I use New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models for open economies. The model used in chapter I simply assumes that the law of one price holds, security market is complete and terms of trade evolve exogenously. In the model used in chapter II, all
Who Owns the Future? Data Trusts, Data Commons, and the Future of Data Ownership

Who owns your data? And why do they? In this article, I consider various stakeholder claims to data ownership and the value generated by data, through a political economy lens. Following a data value framework established by the Open Data Institute, I first consider how data generates value from the point of its creation, how data as a resource imbues various stewardship obligations onto data controllers, and finally how – given competing interests – decision-making authority is apportioned across stakeholders. This framework is then applied to three emerging models of data ownership: Laissez Faire, Data Trusts and Data Commons. The structural qualities of each model are revealed by an in-depth critique, before a visualisation of the data flows between stakeholders is offered. Finally, I compare these models across categoric issues that emerge from this analysis, considering how each model tackles issues such as incentives, competition, innovation and feasibility.
Drought Status, Price, and the Effectiveness of Water Use Restrictions in Pennsylvania

During droughts, governments and water suppliers typically implement non-price policies to encourage water conservation. The state of Pennsylvania requests voluntary reductions in residential water use during moderate droughts and imposes mandatory restrictions during drought emergencies. This study utilizes data on household water consumption to measure the effectiveness of the water use restrictions in Pennsylvania during the moderate drought years 2015-2017. Results suggest that voluntary water use restrictions have smaller than desired effects and that the effects are larger the higher the marginal price of water, perhaps reflecting a trade-off between non-monetary benefits and the welfare loss from reducing water usage. The effectiveness of voluntary water use restrictions also is found to increase with the length of the drought.
The networked enterprise and legitimacy judgments: why digital platforms need leadership

In recent years, scholars, business practitioners and consultants frequently talk about building the networked enterprise. The purpose of this paper is to examine the connections between networked enterprises, organizational legitimacy and organizational performance. ,A survey was developed that measured the following aspects of a networked enterprise: employees who network and communicate extensively via internal digital platforms across their organizations; leaders who actively use internal digital platforms to communicate with employees; leaders who actively communicate with stakeholders via external digital platforms; and an innovation culture. The survey measured the following forms of legitimacy judgments: moral; instrumental; and relational. Altogether, 501 executives and managers were surveyed (207 executives, 147 senior managers and 147 managers) in mid-to-large sized (over 500 employees) companies. ,The analyses showed strong statistical significance for nearly all relationships. Internal communication on digital platforms, networked employee communication and an innovation culture all contributed to moral, instrumental and relational legitimacy. Leadership communication on external digital platforms (social media) was not a significant contributor to moral or relational legitimacy but was a significant contributor to instrumental legitimacy. Higher organization legitimacy was correlated with higher profit growth. ,Leaders and communicators should prioritize a networked enterprise in several ways. They should actively communicate with employees on internal digital platforms. To be absent on internal digital platforms is a significant missed opportunity by leaders to build organizational legitimacy. Further, leaders and communicators should actively promote networked communication among employees as much as possible. Finally, leaders and communicators should communicate, model and reward an innovation culture. ,There are no known scholarly studies that accomplish the following: empirically examine a model of networked enterprises comprised of vertical and horizontal communication and an innovation culture; and make connections between leadership communication on digital platforms in networked enterprises with legitimacy judgments. The large sample of contemporary executives and managers bolsters the strength of the findings.
Lien entre développement financier et croissance économique : la fragmentation ethnique, un handicap ?

Ce papier analyse l’influence de la diversite ethnique sur la relation entre developpement financier et croissance economique. Les essais empiriques effectues a partir d’un modele a effet de seuil sur 129 pays, montrent que le developpement financier affecte positivement la croissance economique. Mais cet impact positif est affaibli par la fragmentation ethnique. En effet, entre deux pays ayant des niveaux de developpement financier identiques, l’effet du developpement financier sur la croissance serait plus faible dans le pays caracterise par une plus forte diversite ethnique. En outre, l’effet du developpement financier sur la croissance n’est perceptible que dans les pays ou la fragmentation ethnique est inferieure a 0,4. Au-dela de ce seuil, l’effet des credits au secteur prive sur la croissance economique est nul.
An Optimum Irrigation Schedule with Aeration for Greenhouse Tomato Cultivations Based on Entropy Evaluation Method

To balance multiple objectives of high yield by farmers, high quality by customers, and high irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE) for sustainable development of agriculture, a two-growing-season study was performed to test the effect of aeration at three irrigation levels (60%, 80%, and 100% of full irrigation) on crop growth, nutrient uptake, yield, IWUE, and fruit quality of tomato. The results showed that compared to the control, aeration significantly increased total dry weight at harvest, total N and K accumulation, which increased tomato yield by 23% and IWUE by 23% (p < 0.05). Yield and IWUE were significantly affected by irrigation with the increasing rate of 20.5% and 14.3% for yield, and with the decreasing rate of 27.7% and 8.6% for IWUE under 100% of full irrigation than that under 60% and 80% of full irrigation, respectively. Aeration positively impacted fruit quality while irrigation had a negative impact (p > 0.05). Based on these indicators, full irrigation with aeration could be an appropriate schedule for greenhouse tomato cultivations by the entropy evaluation method with the comprehensive score of 0.879 and 0.77 for the spring-summer and autumn-winter season, respectively. The result is of great significance to the farmers’ or researchers’ management of aerated irrigation in greenhouse tomatoes.
Solutions curatives pour la restauration de lacs présentant des signes d’eutrophisation

Les pressions exercees par les hommes sur le milieu naturel sont de plus en plus importantes, ce qui entraine un risque de degradation accru, d’annee en annee, de la qualite de notre environnement. Le domaine de l’eau est un milieu particulierement sensible aux pressions anthropiques puisque c’est principalement par l’eau que s’effectue la collecte et le transfert des substances ou composes polluants dans l’environnement. Depuis quelques annees, les lacs, les etangs et les marais, ou se concentrent les masses d’eau issues des bassins versants* voient leur qualite se degrader fortement. Les phenomenes engendres par les pollutions affectant le domaine de l’eau sont souvent spectaculaires. Ils peuvent se manifester par exemple par une proliferation de vegetaux (algues, macrophytes*), ou encore par l’envasement rapide des fonds lacustres. On parle alors d’eutrophisation ou encore de « vieillissement accelere » du plan d’eau. Conscient de ces problemes qui nuisent au milieu naturel, mais egalement a l’ensemble des activites lies aux plans d’eau (peche, tourisme…) un certain nombre d'actions peuvent etre mises en place par les gestionnaires de ces espaces sensibles, pour limiter les phenomenes lies a l’eutrophisation. Il existe en effet de nombreuses solutions proposees pour faire face aux manifestations directes de l’eutrophisation. On ne peut definir une technique d'intervention unique applicable a tous les milieux aquatiques, car chaque plan d’eau possede ses caracteristiques propres. Les differentes techniques qui seront presentees par la suite sont des moyens de lutte curatifs. Il est par consequent essentiel de preciser que ces techniques traitent le probleme de pollution uniquement de facon ponctuelle dans le temps. Elles ne limiteront pas la reapparition des phenomenes d’eutrophisation dans les plans d’eau si aucune mesure n’est sont prise pour reduire l’apport des elements nutritifs par les eaux des tributaires. La lutte contre l’eutrophisation des plans d’eau devrait passer avant tout par des methodes preventives, qui s’attaquent reellement au probleme de contamination, en limitant la diffusion du phosphore, de l’azote, de la matiere organique ou encore des polluants, dans l’environnement.
A Social Analysis of the Olive Oil Sector: The Role of Family Business

Extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) is one of the most popular products in Mediterranean diet. Spain produces about 52% of olive oil with the presence of larger firms; Italy follows with a share of 9% and a production structure characterized instead by small family businesses. A social analysis, based on a multiple-questionnaire, has analyzed the perspectives of 500 consumers conferring their olives to a family-owned olive oil mills (OOMs). This work aims to assess the role of family business evaluating the opportunities associated with the development of circular economy (CE) models. Results show that Italian consumers’ preferences give attention to the use of natural resource and the olive oil is perceived as a natural product. In addition, family owned-OOMs provide a great sense of trust and the relevant role of family within the entire life cycle of olive oil is demonstrated. OOMs that work for residential market are strongly preferred to industrial ones being able to manage single lots of olives belonging to the same customers’ land. The recovery of some by-products represents an opportunity for OOMs and policy support is required to favor the needed generational change, whose absence is perceived as a serious obstacle to the future development of the sector along circularity principles.
The Political Business Cycle: Endogenous Election Timing & Hyperbolic Memory Discounting

The Political Business Cycle: Endogenous Election Timing & Hyperbolic Memory Discounting by Jake R. Cottle, Master of Science Utah State University, 2019 Major Professor: Dr. T. Scott Findley Department: Economics and Finance In the last 47 years there has been significant research on political determinants of macroeconomic cycles. The goal of this paper is to add to this line of research by extending the theoretical and empirical work of Nordhaus, D. Chappell, D.A. Peel, and Scott Findley. Nordhaus (1975) provided us with the first model depicting a rational politician who utilized monetary policy (i.e. inflation rate) to target levels of inflation and unemployment to maximize the number of votes needed for reelection. Chappel and Peel (1979) endogenized time in order to reflect governments such as England and Japan where the incumbent government selects the time of election that maximizes their total number of votes. Findley (2015), utilizing research from psychology, takes Nordhaus's original model and instead of voter’s memories decaying exponentially he describes a voter whose memories decay hyperbolically. The idea of hyperbolic memory discounting is well documented in psychology literature and is described as a more accurate function of how individuals’ memories decay over time. In this paper, I utilized Nordhaus's original model and added to it the endogenized time variable, Chappel and Peel (1979)
Rank and File Equity Compensation and Earnings Management: Evidence from Stock Options

The wide-spread use of rank and file equity-based compensation suggests that executives believe that rank and file employees can affect firm outcomes, and some research supports this view. If equity-based incentives influence rank and file employees’ productive efforts, they might also influence their earnings management decisions. We find that increases in rank and file employees’ option-based compensation — our proxy for equity-based compensation — are associated with increases in earnings management and that this relation is attributable to real activities (as opposed to accrual) earnings management. Cross-sectional tests indicate that the relation is stronger when rank and file option compensation is likely to generate greater performance incentives and attenuated in the presence of more intense monitoring. Finally, we explore the role of cash constraints and overvaluation as potential alternative explanations for this relation and find that neither accounts for our results.
Determinants of Internal Control Compliance in Public Organizations; Using Preventive, Detective, Corrective and Directive Controls

ABSTRACT Internal control is relevant in every entity, regardless of the objectives. However, its effectiveness varies greatly across jurisdictions. From a Ghanaian institutional perspective, this study presents evidence of internal control compliance from selected public organizations, based on 395 sampled observations. The relationships were measured using a structural equation modelling approach – SEM, and conclusion based on a set of hypothesis developed to test for reliability and model fitness. The findings suggest that preventive, detective, corrective and directive controls are good determinants of compliance. Each explanatory construct measured significant across all thresholds based on the statistical estimates reported in the confirmatory factor analysis, regression weights and the goodness of fit indices. The study further observed that internal control is more effective among organizations practising preventive measures. The study implied that over reliance on detective controls may not significantly influence compliance in the long term, as they are instituted to identify risks and events after they occur, a practice that is common among public organisations. The emergence of new risks relative to increasing accountability requirements, from quality perspective may require more preventive measures than any other type of control. Lastly, policymakers in the public sector must ensure, the cost of implementing controls does not outweigh its benefits. Preventive controls are efficient, proactive and cost effective. However, detective controls and other controls are relevant, to support and provide evidence on how effective preventive controls are functioning.