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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 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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Dutch Sectoral Energy Intensity Developments in International Perspective, 1987-2005

Mulder, Peter; de Groot, Henri L. F. - 2014

This paper makes use of a new dataset to investigate energy intensity developments in the Netherlands over the period … 1987-2005. The dataset allows for a comparison with 18 other OECD countries. A key feature of our analysis is that we … levels in the Netherlands on average decreased only marginally, and increased in Services. This performance is in general …

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Involuntary Absence from an Organizational Point of View

de Kok, Jan M.P. - 1997

Involuntary absence is often seen as an exogenous factor, but firms can take actions to reduceit. In this paper the notion that firms, especially SMEs, are faced with a single decisionwhether or not to undertake these actions is questioned. A firm model on involuntary absencemeasures is...

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Competition in Multi-Modal Transport Networks: A Dynamic Approach

van der Weijde, Adriaan Hendrik; Verhoef, Erik T.; van … - 2012

We analyse the behaviour of market participants in a multi-modal commuter network where roads are not priced, but public transport has a usage fee, which is set while taking the effects on the roads into account. In particular, we analyse the difference between markets with a monopolistic public...

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Subjective Expectations of Medical Expenditures and Insurance in Rural Ethiopia

Yilma, Zelalem; O'Donnell, Owen; Mebratie, Anagaw; … - 2015

Little is known about perceptions of medical expenditure risks despite their presumed relevance to health insurance demand. This paper reports on a unique elicitation of subjective probabilities of medical expenditures from rural Ethiopians who are offered the opportunity to purchase health...

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Effectiveness of Large Scale Water and Sanitation Interventions : The One Million Initiative in Mozambique

Elbers, Chris; Godfrey, Samuel; Gunning, Jan Willem; … - 2012

The One Million Initiative aims to give one million people in rural Mozambique access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation by constructing new water points and providing sanitation training. We use panel survey data for 1600 households to analyze the health impact of the Initiative....

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Rhineland exit?

Bovenberg, Lans; Teulings, Coen N. - 2007

We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between stakeholders can easily evolve in a permanent struggle between the stakeholders about the ultimate...

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ICT and Substitution between Out-of-home and At-home Work; the Importance of Timing

de Graaff, Thomas; Rietveld, Piet - 2003

This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s …

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Bayesian Combinations of Stock Price Predictions with an Application to the Amsterdam Exchange Index

Billio, Monica - 2012

We summarize the general combination approach by Billio et al. [2010]. In the combination model the weights follow logistic auto-regressive processes, change over time and their dynamics are possible driven by the past forecasting performances of the predictive densities. For illustrative...

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Long-Run vs. Short-Run Perspectives on Consumer Scheduling : Evidence from a Revealed-Preference Experiment Among Peak-Hour Road Commuters

Peer, Stefanie - 2011

Theoretical and empirical studies of consumer scheduling behavior in commuting, and the associated valuation of time and schedule delays usually ignore that consumers have more exibility to adjust their schedule in the longer run than in the shorter run, implying that also these valuations may...

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