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Microsimulation - A Survey of Methods and Applications for Analyzing Economic and Social Policy

Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

This essential dimensions of microsimulation as an instrument to analyze and forecast the individual impacts of … alternative economic and social policy measures are surveyed in this study. The basic principles of microsimulation, which is a …-section and life-cycle) approaches are compared to one another. Present and past developments of microsimulation models and their …

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The non-behavioral module of the italian microsimulation model econlav

Cipollone, Angela; Coromaldi, Manuela; Curci, Nicola; … - Dipartimento del Tesoro, Ministero dell'Economia e … - 2013

This paper presents the non-behavioral module of EconLav, a new microsimulation model of the Italian tax-benefit system … describe a number of data quality issues which often arise in the development of a microsimulation model and the strategies …

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Labor earnings imputation: An application using labor surveys in Mexico

Eduardo, Rodríguez-Oreggia; Bruno, López Videla - Banco de México - 2014

The aim of this paper is to make imputations of earnings to observations with missing earnings in the Encuesta Nacional de Ocupaciones y Empleo (ENOE). We present imputations by two methods and also correction of estimations by reweighting observations with reported earnings. Then, we analyze...

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On the Behavioral and Rational Foundation of Economic Theory

Simon, Herbert - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983

Existing uncertainties about the correct explanations for economic growth and business cycles cannot be settled by aggregative analysis within the neoclassical framework. Current disputes in theory rest largely on ad hoc, casually empirical, assumptions about departures from perfect rationality...

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Multiple Imputation in the Austrian Household Survey on Housing Wealth

Albacete, Nicolas - Oesterreichische Nationalbank - 2012

This paper presents the multiple imputation model for the imputation of the missing values of the Austrian Household Survey on Housing Wealth 2008. It is based on Bayesian inference and on the fully conditional specification approach. Both theoretical framework and model specification are...

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Zeitverwendungsforschung und Mediennutzung

Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2009

The possibilities of time use research approaches for the analysis of the use of media is the focus of this study. After describing previous studies of media analyses time use research is characterised and the particular suitability of its central surveying instruments – stylised survey...

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Using sentiment to predict GDP growth and stock returns

Guzman, Giselle C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...

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An inflation expectations horserace

Guzman, Giselle C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

For decades, the academic literature has focused on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the Michigan Survey. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data are low frequency...

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Socio-demographic Determinants of Computer Ownership: An Empirical View in the City of Gui Lin

Cheah, Yong Kang; Ning, Chun Mei - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 5 (2013) 1, pp. 57-70

This study aims to investigate the socio-demographic determinants of computer ownership in Gui Lin, China. A cross-sectional primary survey data with a total of 459 respondents is used for the analysis. By applying the binary logistic regression model, the results show that age, marital status,...

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Time Use and Time Budgets – Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations

Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

“Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care...

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