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The impact of scoring weights on price and quality outcomes : an application to the procurement of welfare-to-work contracts

Koning, Pierre; Meerendonk, Arthur van de - 2012

This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and disabled workers. WTW-organizations did not only bid on prices, but also received points for three...

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Achievement rank affects performance and major choices in college

Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021

This paper studies how a student's ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank increases performance and the probability of choosing...

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Does downward nominal wage rigidity dampen wage increases?

Stüber, Heiko; Beissinger, Thomas - 2010

Focusing on the compression of wage cuts, many empirical studies find a high degree of downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR). However, the resulting macroeconomic effects seem to be surprisingly weak. This contradiction can be explained within an intertemporal framework in which DNWR not only...

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The relationship between subjective wellbeing and subjective wellbeing inequality: taking ordinality and skewness seriously

Grimes, Arthur L.; Jenkins, Stephen; Tranquilli, Florencia - 2020

We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz (Economic Inquiry, 2018). Using inequality indices appropriate for ordinal data, our analysis using the...

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Comparing distributions of ordinal data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2020

To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for cardinal variables such as income. Instead we should use an analogous toolbox which takes account of...

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Better off? : distributional comparisons for ordinal data about personal well-being

Jenkins, Stephen - 2019

-being in New Zealand compare with that in Australia, or between young and old people in New Zealand? This paper addresses …

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Inequality comparisons with ordinal data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2019

Non-intersection of appropriately-defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a unanimous ranking of distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction...

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Parametric and semiparametric estimation in models with misclassified categorical dependent variables

Dustmann, Christian; Soest, Arthur van - 2000

We consider both a parametric and a semiparametric method to account for classification errors on the dependent variable in an ordered response model. The methods are applied to the analysis of self-reported speaking fluency of male immigrants in Germany. We find that a parametric model which...

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Happiness and the human development index : Australia is not a paradox

Leigh, Andrew (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006

In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

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Gender, time use and public policy over the life cycle

Apps, Patricia (contributor); Rees, Ray (contributor) - 2005

countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …

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