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  • Dabbled vs sustained self-employment: exploring educational returns within dynamic employment groups 
    Hussein, Hiba; Haj Youssef, Moustafa; Nolan, Steve (2025-06-06)
    Purpose This study examines the returns from education for three distinct groups: always employees, dabblers in self-employment and sustained self-employed individuals. We aim to understand how educational attainment ...
  • Data-Driven Machine Learning Approach to Integrate Field Submittals in Project Scheduling 
    Awada, Mohamad; Srour, F. Jordan; Srour, Issam M. (2020-11-09)
    Construction projects are data-rich environments. However, those data are usually captured for site-specific reasons, e.g., the filing and approval of inspection requests, with little regard to how they can be leveraged ...
  • De-listing from NCCTs and money laundering control measures 
    Shahin, Wassim (2016-05-05)
    Analyses from a banking regulation perspective the general experience of 23 countries that were initially listed as non‐cooperative countries and territories (NCCTs); this group did not meet some or most of the 25 criteria ...
  • Debt arrears as a signal of sovereign defaults 
    Zeaiter, Hussein (2017-10-12)
    The accuracy of the inference about the risk of default is very important to the potential creditors in their lending decisions. In the literature, the usual used indicators of sovereign default in a given country (debtor) ...
  • Decision to emigrate amongst the youth in Lebanon 
    Dibeh, Ghassan; Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid (2017-07-07)
    This article studies the determinants of youth emigration decisions, which is considered one of the main causes of ‘Brain Drain’ in Arab Mediterranean Countries (AMCs). We focus on the case of Lebanon using a unique dataset ...
  • Decision trees 
    Srour, F. Jordan (Elsevier Inc., 2026)
    This entry describes the value of and methods for using decision trees within the social sciences. An overview of the basic theory behind decision trees coupled with a summary of binary, multi-way, robust, and optimal ...
  • Decomposing Gender Wage Differentials Using Quantile Regression 
    Dah, Abdallah; Fakih, Ali (2016-05-19)
    This paper investigates gender pay inequality in the labor market of a developing country. Our empirical investigation uses data derived from a sample of employees in the Lebanese banking sector for the years 2008 and 2014. ...
  • Decomposition method for solving a nonlinear business cycle model 
    Dibeh, Ghassan; Deeba, Elias; Khuri, Suheil; Xie, Shishen (2016-05-17)
    In this paper we present a Kaleckian-type model of a business cycle based on a nonlinear delay differential equation. A numerical algorithm based on a decomposition scheme is implemented for the approximate solution of the ...
  • Definition and selection of fuzzy sets in genetic‐fuzzy systems using the concept of fuzzimetric arcs 
    Kouatli, Issam (2016-05-06)
    Purpose – This paper seeks to identify and propose a standard approach for the selection and optimization of fuzzy sets used in fuzzy decision‐making systems. Design/methodology/approach – The design was based on two ...
  • Demand For Electricity In Lebanon 
    Dah, Abdallah; Abosedra, Salah; Ghosh, Sajal (2016-05-19)
    This paper estimates the demand for electricity in Lebanon by employing three modeling techniques namely OLS, ARIMA and exponential smoothing for the time span January 1995 to December 2005. In- sample forecasts reveal ...
  • The democratization of intangible luxury 
    Ramadan, Zahy (2019-09-24)
    Purpose The notion of luxury has changed due to the democratization and the fast adoption pace of intangible luxury service providers embedding voice-controlled assistants. In particular, Amazon’s Echo Look is expected ...
  • Demutualisation, initial public offerings and long-run market performance of Canadian life insurance companies 
    Aintablian, Sebouh (2016-05-10)
    We examine alternative hypotheses for the demutualisation of a sample of Canadian life insurance companies (1999-2000) as well as short-run and long-run market effects of demutualisation on firm performance. Our results ...
  • Design of a fuzzy multivariable technique based upon human behavior 
    Kouatli, Issam (IEEE, 2017-11-15)
    Difficulties are encountered in applying multivariable fuzzy systems to industrial processes mainly due to the complexity of the multidimensional fuzzy relation that is to be developed and as a consequence memory overload ...
  • A desire for success: exploring the roles of personal and job resources in determining the outcomes of salesperson social media use 
    Kalra, Ashish; Chaker, Nawar N.; Singh, Rakesh; Itani, Omar S.; Agnihotri, Raj (2023-06-20)
    Sales researchers have recognized the importance of salesperson social media use in enhancing job outcomes. However, research that considers the influence of salesperson personal factors and the individual's work environment ...
  • Detecting latent classes in tourism data through response-based unit segmentation (REBUS) in Pls-Sem 
    Assaker, Guy; Hallak, Rob (2017-04-11)
    This research note describes Response-Based Unit Segmentation (REBUS), a “latent class detection” technique used in partial least squares–structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to examine data heterogeneity. The research ...
  • Determinants of Audit Fees 
    El-Gammal, Walid (2016-04-27)
    This paper studies the views of external auditors and client's representatives (accountants, financial controllers and internal auditors) about the factors that affect determining audit fees and provides evidence whether ...
  • Determinants of deposits in Lebanese commercial banks-evidence from non-resident depositors 
    El Khoury, Rim; Kanj, Olga (2013-01)
    Motivated by the continuous increase of non-residents deposits in Lebanon, this paper will try to investigate the determinants of these inflows from the perspective of foreign depositors. Through the use of 65 questionnaires ...
  • Determinants of dividend payout ratio 
    Elgammal, Walid (Asian Society of Management & Marketing Research, 2018-03-29)
    This paper studies the determinants of the dividends payout ratio. The factors affecting the dividends payout ratio are to be identified. The study focuses only on the cement and construction industry within the MENA region ...
  • Determinants of Domestic Workers' Employment 
    Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid (IZA, 2017-07-10)
    This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of domestic workers’ employment using a unique micro-level dataset on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) conducted by Central ...
  • Determinants of E-government Readiness : An Application of Canonical Correlation and SEM Analysis Techniques 
    Yunis, Manal M.; Sun, Jun (Decision Sciences Institute, 2009)
    E-government represents more than a diffusion of some technology in the public sector. Rather, e-government, along with the set of its accompanying operations, can promote important changes resulting in more streamlined ...

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