PENGALAMAN PENGGUNA DALAM RANCANGAN APLIKASI PEMESANAN TIKET KERETA API MYTRAIN MENGGUNAKAN PENDEKATAN METODE UX JOURNEY

Problem: User experience (UX) has become a major focus in modern application design. In the context of ordering train tickets, the My Train application has implemented the UX Journey method approach to improve the quality of services provided to users. This research aims to explore the user experience in using the My Train application and evaluate the effectiveness of the UX Journey approach in improving the user experience. The discussion of the problem is how implementing UX Journey affects the user experience in the My Train application. The research method used is a qualitative approach with data collection through in-depth interviews with users who have used the My Train application. Method: In this method, researchers explore users' views and experiences in interacting with the application. We also seek a deep understanding of the challenges they face and the extent to which the UX Journey approach has provided solutions. Results: The research results show that applying the UX Journey approach to the My Train application has had a positive impact on the user experience. Users reported significant improvements in terms of easier navigation, clearer information, and a more efficient ordering process. Although there were several challenges, such as understanding new features and system response speed, improvements made based on user feedback have provided a satisfactory solution. Conclusion and development: It is hoped that the UX Journey approach can effectively improve the user experience in the My Train application. This provides valuable insights for the development of better services and can be adopted by similar applications in an effort to improve user experience. Furthermore, this research also opens up the potential for further development in the context of the UX Journey which can be applied in various industries and applications

Unemployment and Welfare Partecipation in a Structural VAR: Rethinking the 1990s in the United States

A 1997 report by the Council of Economic Advisers started a large research effort about the effects of the unemployment rate on the welfare participation rate and vice-versa, with special regard to the 1990s in the United States. In this paper the relationship between the US unemployment rate and the welfare participation rate is examined in a structural VAR. It is found that the unemployment rate does not Granger-cause the welfare participation rate, while the converse is true. Moreover, a negative shock to the welfare participation rate predicts a reduction in the unemployment rate. The conclusion is that the decline in the welfare participation rate in the 1990s should be attributed to restrictive welfare reforms, not to the fall in the unemployment rate. Further, the political choice to reduce the welfare participation rate may have inflated the reduction in the unemployment rate, by increasing the number of people willing to accept peripheral jobs, for instance in the Eating and drinking places.welfare; unemployment; structural VAR

Efficiency vs. market-power effects in the mobile-voice industry

This paper suggests a new procedure for separating the market-power effect from the efficiency effect when cost data are not available. We examine a panel of data on 177 mobile-voice operators in 45 countries from 1999:1 to 2004:2 and find that a 1% increase in the market share of an operator increases its price-cost margin by 0.58-0.66%, but only a small share of this increase is due to a market-power effect.Telecommunications, Panel Data

Wage Bargaining and the (Dynamic) Mincer Equation

This paper shows that, if observed earnings are the result of employer-employee wage bargaining, under a set of specific assumptions, the standard static Mincer equation can be thought as a particular case of a dynamic wage equation. Particularly, we argue that the standard static Mincer equation is implicitly based on the hypothesis that the employee has full bargaining power, and provide (further) empirical evidence against this hypothesis.Mincer Equation, Return to Schooling, Wage Bargaining

Portugal and the competitive disinflation: let the data speak

This paper provides an empirical evaluation of the three main arguments proposed by Blanchard (2007) in a recent article on the evolution of the Portuguese economy during the last decade, with special regard to the dynamics of international trade and unemployment. Our time-series evidence supports two out of the three arguments.

How Fast Do Wages Adjust to Human-Capital Productivity? Dynamic Panel-Data Evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland

The standard human-capital model is based on the assumption that the observed wage of an individual is equal to the monetary value of the individual net human-capital productivity, the so-called net potential wage. We argue that this assumption is rejected by the ECHP data for Belgium, Denmark and Finland. The empirical evidence supports a dynamic approach to the Mincer equation where no equality is imposed but an adjustment between observed and potential earnings is allowed to take place over time. Controlling for regressors' endogeneity, individual heterogeneity and time effects, we estimate a dynamic panel-data wage equation and provide measures of the speed of adjustment in Belgium, Denmark and Finland. Further, we elaborate on the implications of a dynamic approach to the Mincer equation for the computation of the return to schooling, including the implication that this return is not independent of labor-market experience, as suggested by Heckman et al. (2005) and Belzil (2007). Finally, we show that a dynamic wage equation can be seen as the solution of a simple wage-bargaining model and argue that a micro-founded model can fit the data better than a simple adjustment model but requires more theoretical assumptions.Mincer equation, wages, human capital

Wage Bargaining and the (Dynamic) Mincer Equation

This paper shows that, if observed earnings are the result of employer-employee wage bargaining, under a set of specific assumptions, the standard static Mincer equation can be thought as a particular case of a dynamic wage equation. Particularly, we argue that the standard static Mincer equation is implicitly based on the hypothesis that the employee has full bargaining power, and provide (further) empirical evidence against this hypothesis.Mincer equation, return to schooling, wage bargaining

Evaluating a mobile telecommunications merger in Portugal

This paper evaluates the impact of the proposed Optimus-TMN mobile telecommunications merger in Portugal. The results suggest that, if the merger would have taken place, the average market profit margin would have increased by 11.6 percentage points and the average market price would have increased by 3.8%. As a consequence, the average marginal cost would have decreased by 14.9%, and welfare would have increased by €163.3mn per year, a gain entirely captured by the producers. Moreover, the merger would have resulted in a large transfer of surplus from consumers to producers, to the tune of €99.5mn per year. The conclusion is that, while the merger could have been authorized on efficiency grounds, such authorization should have been accompanied by strict retail price-cap merger remedies.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Peran Agama dalam Mengendalikan Dorongan Seksual Kaum Gay di Kota Bandung

Agama Islam sebagai pedoman kehidupan umat muslim selayaknya dapat diamalkan dan dijadikan acuhan serta pertimbangan dalam memutuskan segala sesuatu. Akan tetapi dalam kasus ini, kaum gay yang beragama Islam melakukan hubungan seksual sesama jenis karena merasa tidak mampu menahan dorongan seksual. Walaupun kaum gay muslim mengetahui bahwa menyukai sesama jenis adalah larangan agama, akan tetapi hal tersebut tidak mampu membuatnya untuk menahan timbulnya dorongan seksual tersebut. Di sisi lain, kaum gay ingin mempertahankan prinsip keyakinannya, sebaliknya kaum gay kesulitan untuk mengendalikan dorongan seksual dalam dirinya. penelitian ini kemudian membahas tentang bagaimana makna agama bagi gay muslim, seksualitas kaum gay muslim dan peran agama dalam mengendalikan dorongan seksual gay muslim. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif analitik dalam bentuk studi kasus terhadap 7 orang gay muslim di Kelurahan Pasirbiru Kecamatan Cibiru Kota Bandung. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan wawancara tidak terstruktur dan didukung dengan observasi dan dokumentasi. Sedangkan untuk analisisnya menggunakan teori Miles dan Huberman dalam Creswell. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahw peran agama dalam mengendalikan dorongan seksual kaum gay menunjukkan bahwa dua diantara 7 orang yang menyatakan agama mampu mengendalikan dorongan seksual yang dimiliki, hal tersebut karena adanya penghatan mendalam dan takut akan azab Allah, dan 5 orang menyatakan keraguan karena melihat agama hanya sebatas pelaksanaan kewajiban

Empirical examination of intersectoral linkages between tourism and regional economy by using the social accounting matrix

Purpose: The main objectives of this study are to analyze the role of the tourism sector as measured by multiplier effects and linkages in the economy’s output, employment, and income distribution. Design/methodology/approach: The Social Accounting Matrix model was utilized by using the methods of Linkage Analysis, Multiplier Analysis, Multiplier Decomposition, Structural Path Analysis (SPA) and simulation analysis. Findings: The results show that the tourism sector contributes greater portion to the economic output, than other economic sectors in Bali. It also generates more equal income distribution and employment. However, the simulation shows that the tourism sector has not focused on increasing the income of the lower classes in rural areas. Practical implications: This study is practically useful for policy makers and entrepreneurs in the tourism sector to expand the tourism base in rural areas by actively involving lower economic groups as labor and supplier partners. Originality/value: This study originally investigated the linkages between agriculture and tourism from various economic perspectives of output, income distribution and employment.peer-reviewe