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Combining administrative and survey data to improve income measurement
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2019
We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by … error from weighting), item non-response or imputation error, and measurement error. We then discuss these three sources of … the potential of linked data by showing how using linked administrative variables improves the measurement of income and …
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An empirical total survey error decomposition using data combination
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolaus - 2019
: representation error, item non-response error and measurement error. We further decompose these sources into lower level sources such … survey error is large and varies in its size and composition, but measurement error is always by far the largest source of …
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Online versus in-person services : effects on patients and providers
Dahlstrand-Rudin, Amanda; Le Nestour, Nestor; Michaels, Guy - 2024
Online delivery of one-to-one services offers potential cost savings and increased convenience, yet relatively little is known about its impacts on providers and consumers. This paper studies the online delivery of healthcare, focusing on primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from...
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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
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Happiness and development
Nikolova, Milena - 2016
Subjective well-being (SWB) indicators, such as positive and negative emotions, life evaluations, and assessments of having purpose and meaning and life are increasingly used alongside income, employment, and consumption measures to provide a more comprehensive view of human progress. SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517733
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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country
Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015
In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States
Hufe, Paul; Kobus, Martyna; Peichl, Andreas; Schüle, Paul - 2022
measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …
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Measurements of skill and skill-use using PIAAC
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Toriyabe, Takahiro - 2022
We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate that the proposed skill and skill use indices explain the wage gap between males and females, as...
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Measuring youth empowerment: an illustration using the example of Tunisia
Goedhuys, Micheline; Grimm, Michael; Meysonnat, Aline; … - 2021
important for youth and how they can be operationalized with indicators for measurement. We propose four domains of youth …
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Whoever you want me to be: personality and incentives
McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter - 2020
What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to...
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