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Survey and s simple microsimulation model in order to describe the household incomes in Georgia for the year 2005, their …
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The objective of this paper is to estimate the parameters defining female labour participation and occupation decisions. Departing from a theoretical framework, we use micro data to estimate the wage-participation elasticity in Mexico. Consistency between the selectivity-adjusted wages and the...
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The application of a microsimulation model as an instrument for economic research enjoys great popularity. The use of … microsimulation is an almost ideal method for the estimation of the impact of tax and allocative transfer reforms. With the … integration of a demand system the field of application of a microsimulation model can be enlarged as well as its potential …
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concerned with businesses active in Poland during the period 2004-2008. The microsimulation and group simulation methods were …
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components – tax reform, tax revenue estimation and microsimulation – are briefly discussed. …
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The scope and extent of home-based businesses and the determination of the method by which the greater portion of household income is generated, in poor neighbourhoods, is the crux ofthis study.The study was undertaken among the 2245 households in the Kleinvlei sub-economic housing area located...
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The paper presents a spreadsheet-based multiple account framework for cost-benefit analysis which incorporates all the usual concerns of cost-benefit analysts such as shadow-pricing to account for market failure. distribution of net benefits. sensitivity and risk analysis, cost of public funds,...
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"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of individual extraction decisions and payoffs we conjecture that subjects will imitate the most successful players’ strategy as long as their payoffs increase. We derive a stable...
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Developing countries with highly unequal income distributions, such as Brazil or South Africa, face an uphill battle in reducing inequality. Educated workers in these countries have a much lower birth rate than uneducated workers. Assuming children of educated workers are more likely to become...
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The study seeks to re-investigate the role of price, income and health awareness in the evolution of South African cigarette demand over the period 1996 to 2006. At first glance, rising cigarette prices appear to have played an important role in reducing cigarette consumption over the sample...
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