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Economic Well-being and British Regions: The Problem with GDP Per Capita

Harvie, David; Slater, Gary; Philp, Bruce; Wheatley, Dan - 2008

, namely commuting. This leads to us to construct a new indicator which we call social productivity. Our conclusion is that our …

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Theory of job search. Unemployment-participation tradeoff and spatial search with asymmetric changes of the wage distribution

Aldashev, Alisher - 2007

work place retaining their place of residence, i.e. commute. Introduction of commuting possibility into the model produces … possible commuting destinations is bounded and the maximum distance a worker is willing to commute is determined by exogenous … region within a maximal acceptable commuting distance thereby substantiating the use of "hurdle" models for empirical …

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An examination of county-level labor market responses to economic growth in Kansas

Schlosser, Janet A. - 2008

markets are not bound by county lines, commuting and migration are important factors to consider when measuring employment …, in-commuting, and out-commuting. The model was estimated using Ordinary Least Squares regression and was simulated to … predict changes in labor force, unemployment and commuting as a result of a change in employment for all 105 Kansas counties …

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The day activity schedule approach to travel demand analysis

Bowman, John L. - 1998

This study develops a model of a person's day activity schedule that can be used to forecast urban travel demand. It is motivated by the notion that travel outcomes are part of an activity scheduling decision, and uses discrete choice models to address the basic modeling problem-capturing...

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Detecting shocks: outliers and breaks in time series

Atkinson, Anthony C.; Koopman, Siem Jan; Shephard, Neil - 1997

A single outlier in a regression model can be detected by the effect of its deletion on the residual sum of squares. An equivalent procedure is the simple intervention in which an extra parameter is added for the mean of the observation in question. Similarly, for unobserved components or...

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MARKET INTEGRATION: CASE STUDIES OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE

Franken, Jason R.V.; Parcell, Joseph L. - 2003

The grain/oilseed industry is undergoing considerable structural change in the form of mergers and the addition of new processing facilities to add value beyond commodity grade. The rapid structural changes in this industry call into question the relevance of previous research conducted in these...

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AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF LIVE HOG DEMAND

Parcell, Joseph L.; Mintert, James R.; Plain, Ronald L. - 2000

An inverse live hog demand model was estimated to analyze claims that the live hog own quantity demand flexibility's magnitude has increased in recent years. A second objective of this research was to estimate the impact changes in processing capacity utilization rates have on live hog prices....

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Changing Diets in China's Cities: Empirical Fact or Urban Legend?

Fuller, Frank H.; Dong, Fengxia - 2006

Replaced with revised version of paper 09/12/07.

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SCENAR2020: Future of European Agriculture under Different Policy Options, the economic modelling framework

Banse, Martin; Helming, John F.M.; van Meijl, Hans; … - 2008

This paper identifies major future trends and driving factors and perspectives and challenges resultingfrom them for European agriculture and food sectors until the year 2020. The focus of the paper is ananalysis of key driving forces and the provision of a well developed reference scenario...

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Future of European agriculture after the Health Check

Banse, Martin; Helming, John F.M.; Nowicki, Peter; van … - 2008

This paper identifies major future trends and driving factors and perspectives and challenges resulting from them for European agriculture and food sectors until the year 2020. The focus of the paper is an analysis of key driving forces and the provision of a well developed reference scenario...

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