35 research outputs found
Housing Policy in the Eurozone Countries: a Multidimensional Contribute to the Analysis of Socio-economic Factors (2010-2014)
The latest global economic and financial crisis translated in adverse social consequences on many aspects,
including the income and social situation of households and their living conditions, especially when the
housing phenomenon is addressed. This reality of uncertainty as made even more relevant the study of the
housing phenomenon, in particular from a perspective of analysis of its evolution. In this context, we revisit
EUROSTAT’s databases which contain general economic indicators, housing stock indicators, housing
affordability indicators, population and social conditions indicators and housing quality indicators, for
twelve Euro Area countries, during 5 years, with a multidimensional perspective, using the HJ -BIPLOT
method developed by Galindo (1986).This methodological approach identified and categorized twelve Euro
Zone sample countries in latent constructs of reduced dimensionality related to the housing policy
problematic. The simultaneous factorial representation identified the most relevant variables to
characterize these countries, their trajectories during the period in analysis, and the relations between
variables, between countries, and between variables and countries. This approach also made it possible to
identify the most significant factors contributing to the countries performances as population at risk of
poverty, unemployment rate, overburden rate, share of housing cost in disposable income, tenant and owner
with mortgage or loan and also to cluster these countries according to their (dis)similitude. This analysis
can be useful for housing research, when studying multivariate data and also, by its visual nature, a
potential tool for producing richer information not only for the academia but also for policy makers
A costatis approach to business sustainability in turbulent environments from 2008 to 2014
European countries continue to differ considerably from one another economically, not only in economic growth assessed by GDP growth rates but also in their companies' population by Economic Activities. Nonetheless these regular differences, the occurrence of crisis and other economic events can promote economic turbulence conducing to different responses, conditioned by each country's specificities. The occurrence of the 2008 financial crisis, the subsequent economic and sovereign debt crisis introduced additional factors of turbulence in the business sustainability of the European (EU) companies. This research, supported by the COSTATIS method, analyses the co-structure and measures the discrepancy between the population of EU companies for each NACE and the GDP components in their dynamics from 2008 to 2014. The results detected greater discrepancies between the population of companies and the stability of economic growth for a subset of EU countries with particularities regarding their NACE and GDP components.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
A habitação em Portugal (1992-2008): uma visão multidimensional sobre o desempenho do Estado, proprietários e famÃlias
1.Identificar o posicionamento dos três agentes económicos, no que concerne à s variáveis em estudo; 2.Analisar a relação entre Estado, Proprietários e FamÃlias; 3.Caracterizar o comportamento das variáveis em análise na perspetiva dos três agentes; 4. Averiguar a contribuição do Estado, Proprietários e FamÃlias para a definição do comportamento anual dos instrumentos para a habitação; 5. Verificar a relação entre as variáveis em estudo e a sua contribuição na identificação das similaridades/dissimilaridades comportamentais do Estado, Proprietários e FamÃlias; 6. Reconhecer os agentes económicos causadores de divergências e/ou convergências no sector da habitação
Housing in portugal (1992-2008)A multidimensional perspective on the behaviour of economic agents / Moradia em portugal (1992-2008)Uma perspectiva multidimensional do comportamento dos agentes econômicos
 Since the nation joined the European Union, the process that regulates housing policy in Portugal has been subject to specificities that are proper of the Portuguese situation. In a State which has a considerable housing deficit, it was the quantifier elements that judged the various governments regarding this matter. Almost all of the housing production depended on mortgage loans in which soft loans played an important part, together with tax benefits. The negative effects produced by lease blocking were increasingly felt throughout the analyzed period of time. The changes in context due to the decrease of tax rates and the legislative alterations on soft loans, conditioned the agents behavior and, necessarily, the rhythm of Portugal’s housing market. Using the STATIS (Structuration of Tableaux A Trois Indices de la Statistique) methodology and through the analysis of the housing policy instruments, it was possible to identify the trajectories and changes in performance of the State, Owners and Families during the period between 1992 and 2008, as well as the most significant variables for understanding the problematic of housing in Portugal
The dynamics between economic growth and living standards in EU Countries: A STATICO approach for the period 2006-2014
The rate of economic growth is dissimilar between areas or regions, and these divergences generate potential impact on quality of life. The occurrence of the financial and economic crisis of 2008, can strengthen these gaps. Economic growth in this analysis includes six levels of gross domestic product growth rates (GDPgr) and seven variables with direct implications on the quality of life of families. The observations are fifteen EU countries, organized into three groups: northern, central and southern. The STATICO method (Simier et al., 1999) used in this research is a three-way multivariate analysis supported on a partial triadic analysis (PTA, Thioulose and Chessel, 1987) to find the stable part of the structure of a series of tables from 2006 to 2014, over a common structure resulting from the co-inertia analysis (Doledec and Chessel, 1994) applied to each pair of an economic growth tables and a life standard tables. With this method, it was possible to extract the stable part of economic growth-life standard common relationships and to analyze the influences of the financial crisis of 2008info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Emergency Service of the University Hospital of Algarve in Faro: A Contribution of the DISTATIS Method to Classify and Prioritize its Main Issues and Challenges
Events occurring in hospital emergency services tend to be of a chaotic and
complex nature, giving rise to unique challenges, mainly in the fields of finance
management, equipment, workloads and human resources. The research here
presented addresses the issue, first by determining the top ten problems and
challenges facing the Emergency Service of the University Hospital of Algarve in
Faro and second by underlining perceptions and associated levels of importance
attributed by an in-house group of specialists that assist on the unit's
management process. Data was collected in two phases a) a brainstorming
exercise with work-shift leaders for generation of opinions and ideas regarding the
evaluation of the top ten problems; b) presentation of the top ten issues to a
panel of experts who, on an individual basis, classified, categorized and ranked
them. Collected data was of a multidimensional nature and it was later analysed
using an innovative three-way technique, the DISTATIS method (Abdi et al., 2005;
Abdi et al., 2007). In our evaluation of the expert responses, we highlighted
experts whose options were characterized by similarities and differences and
others with stable and unstable opinions. Final results provided information on
opposition and coherence among the experts, identifying common themes and
problems relevant to the organization's management and decision processes
Modern innovation challenges to firms and cities: The case of Portugal
Modern competition is tough due to emergent information systems and technologies. Managers must cope with these challenges continuously to keep their businesses sustainable. An important step is to employ strategies based on open innovation. This work analyses where Portugal stands in terms of innovation in general, propensity for open innovation and innovation sustainability. An HJ-Biplot methodology was applied to a valid sample from CIS 2012 (Community Innovation Survey). It suggests that Portuguese firms must cut back on activities that are not leading to the outcomes needed. Also, with the right partners they can have more ideas executed and diffused
Three-Way Analysis of the European Fund for Fisheries in Portugal: the Implementation of PROMAR’s Axis 4
The PROMAR is the Operational Programme for Fisheries, co-financed by
the European Fisheries Fund (EFF), which replaced the Financial Instrument for
Fisheries Guidance (FIFG), which mission is to support the fisheries sector in order to
ensure sustainable exploitation of living aquatic resources providing sustainable
conditions in the economic, environmental and social terms. With information obtained
from PROMAR, covering the period 2007-2014, and with regard to operations financed
by the measure "Sustainable Development of Fisheries Areas" (Axis 4), we intend to
analyze its implementation in Portugal. In this context, this paper aims to analyze the
trends of the type of promoters and projects funded under PROMAR Axis 4. Covering
the geographical area of intervention of the seven GAC in Portugal and for the period
2007-2014, will be highlighted the conditioning factors of the financed projects by
analyzing and diagnosing the type of promoters, the implementation rate of the projects
and the investment types, both regional and national level. With the increasing number
of applicable areas, the analysis of multiple data through three-way methods has
become attractive as an exploratory analysis tool. Within these methods, the Multiple
Factor Analysis (MFA) when evaluating various data tables, discovers the existence of
joint structures between them and, in comparison to other asymmetric methods, has the
advantage of capturing more information, allowing greater interpretability of data.
Thus, the use of a set of disaggregated data on the seven GAC in Portugal during the
period 2007-2014, allowed the construction of three-dimensional data structures to an
MFA, in which not only the national reality of the projects funded under PROMAR
Axis 4 is detailed, but also useful information to the monitoring process and the
decision on the European Fisheries Fund policies stands out
Three-Way Multiblock Methods for Decision-Making in Health Services: A COSTATIS Approach to Improving Management at a Private Clinical Laboratory
In the last decade, the clinical laboratory sector in Portugal has witnessed an
increase in competition through the integration of small private laboratories in
multinational organizations. In this competition scenario, it is imperative that
decisions related to management are made based on the analysis of varied and
detailed information data in order to propose strategies and prioritize
management. Thus, the growing need for data analysis, especially in dynamic
contexts, to detect, identify and characterize the most relevant issues for a more
efficient decision-making process, is essential. This research was based on data for
the period 2014-2017, from a private clinical laboratory located in the Algarve. The
use of two interrelated information structures, namely 14 collection points and
the subsequent 10 clinical tests with the highest billing volume in 2017, led to the
application of the COSTATIS method (Thioulouse et al., 2011) in order to capture a
common co-structure that analyses the stability or instability of the two data
structures. An exploratory three-way multiblock method highlights the relations
between two data structures as a whole. Therefore, the interpretation of the
influence relationships of the production of clinical tests on the performance of
collection points can reveal particularly useful discrepancies and/or coincidences
for the management. With this detailed information, it is possible to propose
initiatives for improvement or correction and to promote functional strategies
with the objective of assisting the laboratory management process and suggesting
strategies that are more efficient
Arbitragem no turismo: uma oportunidade de lucro?
Arbitragem no turismo: uma oportunidade de lucro