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, classification has been done manually. If it were possible to combine new computational tools and administrative wage records to … information about the changing occupational composition of the labor market. This paper examines the potential to assign …
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statistics. They are the enterprise definition and the social security definition. Further, contributions of individual and job … informality. The study suggests that preference should be given to social security definition of labor informality for a more …
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employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production …
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conceptualisations. While some individual studies may apply a tight definition consistently, the literature as a whole is in a mess. This …
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education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …
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comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …
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Brazilian health authorities have recommended that pregnant women take meticulous precaution to avoid mosquito bites, and use contraceptive methods to postpone/delay pregnancies. In this article, we present new estimates on the Zika virus prevalence, its correlates and preventive behaviors in...
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In this paper, we propose an algorithmic approach based on resampling and bootstrap techniques to measuring the importance of a variable, or a set of variables, in econometric models. This algorithmic approach allows us to check the real weight of a variable in a model, avoiding the biases of...
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