Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"financial difficulty"”.
-
The impact of financial literacy on financial capability: Evidence based on the National Financial Capability Study
… research examines the relationship between financial literacy and financial capability using cross-sectional data of the United States population from five different triennial surveys. Financial literacy is measured in terms of financial education attendance, and financial capability is …
-
The Effect of Discrimination on Mental Health after Adverse Childhood Experiences
… mental health after controlling for age, gender, financial difficulty in childhood, financial difficulty in the last three years, and education in Caribbean Americans, African Americans, and European Americans. Results indicate that discrimination moderates the relationship between ACEs and mental …
-
Characteristics and practices of financially-stressed homeowners in Prince William County, Virginia
… homeowners and to determine to what extent financial difficulty, as measured by the back-end financial ratio (principal, interest, taxes, and insurance, plus consumer credit payments, divided by gross monthly income), can be explained by a combination of affective and objective attributes …
-
A Comparative Assessment of Employee Rights within South African, United Kingdom and Australian Corporate Rescue Legislation
… which encourage the rescue and recovery of financially distressed companies, rather than bringing the company’s existence to a close in a liquidation process. The underlying logic of business rescue is that a company experiencing financial difficulty can be turned around, and in the long run …
-
A Using Permaculture to Enhance Urban Food Security: An Abandoned Golf Course Case Study
… of golf courses are presently experiencing financial difficulty. Tone potential an emerging land use type catagor that is experiencing is increasing. Developing a robust and reliable system of urban agriculture is one strategy for improving food security. In the urban setting, agriculture …
-
Behavioral Aspects of Retirement Savings: How do 401(K) Plans Affect Household Asset Accumulation?
… be using retirement loans because they are in financial difficulty. It also appears that borrowers are trying to maintain their retirement savings, but their asset accumulation within broader measures of wealth is below that of households that do not have outstanding 401(k) loans.
-
Using the Concepts of Framing and Loss Aversion to Answer Pertinent Questions on Cooperative Behaviors in Social Dilemmas
… Participants were asked to role-play students in financial difficulty who were offered financial assistance and found themselves in a social dilemma either to accumulate more funds for themselves or to conserve a common fund that was meant to help individuals in similar situations. The task was an …
-
Retirement Provision among the Black and Minority Ethnic Group in the UK
Retirement provision is an important aspect of financial decision making that can influence the financial quality of life experienced by individuals in old age, regardless of their ethnic group. However, individuals belonging to the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) group are more financially …
-
Risk, responsibility, and power in the regulation of Ireland’s financial services industry, 2004-2017
As the Irish financial crisis of 2008 unfolded, public deliberation focused on the treatment of Ireland’s ‘bailed out’ financial institutions and the social and economic impact of austerity. Meanwhile, Ireland’s regulatory actors sought to update a regulatory framework to better ‘protect’ citizens …
-
Coal mining on a Yorkshire estate: land ownership and personal capitalism, 1850-1914.
… land was heavily mortgaged and the family was in financial difficulty. The thesis centres on the successful efforts led by Rowland Winn (1820-1893), elder son of the landowner Charles (1795-1874), to restore the estates’financial ‘equilibrium through the exploitation of their mineral resources. …
-
Providing For Our Communities, Protecting Our Race, Proving Ourselves: African American Activism and Protest In Depression Era New Orleans
… American men and women to overcome extreme financial difficulty as well as social divisions to demand justice and equality.</p>
-
Developing talent management hybrid model for business growth and sustainability: the case of Malaysian theme park industry
… outbreak, Malaysia's theme parks faced much financial difficulty due to a lack of expertise and skilled talent, as many had been lay-off. A new business model is required to support the theme parks industry restarting and rebounce their business growth and sustainability. This research used …
-
Academic Leadership in Advancement Activities: A Dimension of the Dean's Role in American Higher Education
… both public and private, faced difficult financial problems with no apparent end in sight. A growing number of colleges and universities have been threatened by the unstable economy and shrinking applicant pools and are faltering under this threat. Private higher education seems to be …
-
From the Inside Out: Excavating the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles
… PASLA operated for twenty-seven years, if with financial difficulty, much longer than many of its contemporary community cultural arts organizations within Watts and the Watts Curfew Area. Vantile Whitfield and the PASLA Community Players were uniquely situated in Los Angeles with proximity and …