This paper presents the qualitative experiment as an alternative methodological solution that combines open approach, and a structured controlled experiment. Using three studies, including both traditional in-depth interviews we compare findings of approaches to identify benefits risks experiments. Our contribute by presenting framework technical recommendations based on validity criteria (inte...

In-depth interviews are a versatile form of qualitative data collection used by researchers across the social sciences. They allow individuals to explain, in their own words, how they understand and interpret world around them. Interviews represent deceptively familiar encounter which people interact asking answering questions. are, however, very particular type conversation, guided researcher ...

We outline, briefly, the role that issues of the nexus between noncomputability and unpredictability, on the one hand, and between undecidability and unsolvability, on the other, have played in Computable Economics. The mathematical underpinnings of Computable Economics are provided by (classical) recursion theory, varieties of computable and constructive analysis and aspects of combinatorial o...

Les documents de travail ne reflètent pas la position de l'INSEE et n'engagent que leurs auteurs. Working papers do not reflect the position of INSEE but only the views of the authors. 1 This working paper is a reflection on the conditions required to use optimal matching (OM) in social sciences. Despite its striking success in biology, optimal matching was not invented to solve biological ques...

This article investigates the development of the share of women CEOs and chairpersons in knowledge intensive industries in Sweden from 2000 to 2010. The Swedish national development, covering all limited companies with a CEO, is compared to case studies of the biotech and the ICT industries, with differences in female participation in the highly educated key workforce. The results indicate an i...