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Mean and Bold?
Witte, Kristof De; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
See also the article 'Mean and bold: on separating merger economies from structural efficiency gains in the drinking … benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly, merger activity arose. This paper develops … a tailored nonparametric model to dissect and distinguish the effects on efficiency of these two evolutions. In …
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The Attractiveness of Temporary Employment to Reduce Adjustment Costs
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
In this paper I determine the importance of adjustment costs in employers hiring decisions. Temporary work arrangements offer potential ways to avoid adjustment costs. I estimate employers willingness to pay for the characteristics of these work arrangements. I distinguish regular contracts,...
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The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed inthe nineties by Oswald ,Clark , Blanchflower and others with the older incomeevaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in theseventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
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Measuring the Economic Value of a Marine Protection Program against the Introduction of Non-Indigenous Species in the Netherlands
Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
Harmful algal bIoom species are the cause of important damages to marine living resources and human beings. These marine species are primarily introduced in North-European waters through ballast water, i.e. water trans-ported across the oceans so as to keep a vessel in balance. Port authorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257533
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Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments
Albrecht, James; Vuuren, Aico van; Vroman, Susan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyzethe gender gap between men and women who work full time in the Nether-lands. Because the fraction of women working full time in the Netherlands isquite low, sample selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding...
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Crowding Perception in a Tourist City: A Question of Preference
Neuts, Bart; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Two main topics are analysed in this paper: a crowding model for an urban destination is tested by the use of a binary logistic model in order to identify the variables influencing crowding perception; and the inherent negativity of the crowding concept, as is often assumed, is examined through...
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The Impact of China on Stock Returns and Volatility in the Taiwan Tourism Industry
Chang, Chia-Lin; Hsu, Hui-Kuang; McAleer, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>The North American Journal of Economics and Finance</I> (2014). Volume 29(C), pages 381-401.<P> This paper investigates the stock returns and volatility size effects for firm performance in the Taiwan tourism industry, especially the impacts arising...</p></i>
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Assessment of Tourist Competitiveness by analysing Destination Efficiency
Cracolici, Francesca; Rietveld, Piet; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
the efficiency of tourist site destinations. Using a dataset of 103 Italian regions for the year 2001, an economic … efficiency analysis based on a production frontier approach has been made in the present study. The study deploys a measure of … tourist site competitiveness in terms of its technical efficiency using parametric and non-parametric methods, a stochastic …
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Regional Efficiency Improvement by Means of Data Envelopment Analysis through Euclidean Distance Minimization including Fixed Input Factors - An Application to Tourist Regions in I...
Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
a more appropriate efficiency-improving projection model by means of a weighted projection function. The model is …
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A Firm's First Year
Abbring, Jaap H.; Campbell, Jeffrey R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
This paper determines the structural shocks that shape a firm's first year by estimating a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival using monthly sales histories from 305 Texas bars. We find that heterogeneity in firms' pre-entry scale decisions accounts for about 40% of their...
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