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Telecommunications dynamics, output and employment

Jungmittag, Andre (contributor); … - 2006

In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …

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Political institutions and the development of telecommunications

Andonova, Veneta (contributor); … - 2007

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …

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Competition reform and household welfare: a microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...

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How reliable are income data collected with a single question?

Micklewright, John (contributor); … - 2007

Income is an important correlate for numerous phenomena in the social sciences. But many surveys collect data with just a single question covering all forms of income. This raises issues of quality, and these are heightened when individuals are asked about the household total rather than own...

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective

Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); … - 2007

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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Is there an income gradient in child health? : it depends whom you ask

Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2010

A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the socioeconomic gradient are likely to be biased and potentially...

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The British household panel survey and its income data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2010

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...

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Vignette equivalence and response consistency : the case of job satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; … - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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Which schools and pupils respond to educational achievement surveys? : a focus on the English PISA sample

Schnepf, Sylke V.; Durrant, Gabriele B.; Micklewright, John - 2014

Using logistic and multilevel logistic modelling we examine non-response at the school and pupil level to the important educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for England. The analysis exploits unusually rich auxiliary information on all schools and...

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Was the mid-2000s drop in the British job change rate genuine or a survey design effect?

Jenkins, Stephen - 2020

The year-on-year job change rate fell sharply, from 18% in 2005 to around 13% in 2006, according to British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) estimates. This fall coincides with the introduction of dependent interviewing to the BHPS, intended to reduce measurement error and improve consistency....

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