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Five essays on early education and workplace training
Mühler, Grit - 2010
With its recently announced strategy "Europe 2020", the European Union picks up two major challenges: transforming the economy into a knowledge society with innovation as the main driver of economic growth and cohering a population whose workforce is shrinking and aging. Two benchmarks of this...
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Credit Rationing in the Polish Farm Sector: A Microeconometric Analysis Based on Survey Data
Petrick, Martin - 2002
The objective of this paper is to empirically detect credit rationing of Polish farms. Based on cross-sectional survey data and motivated by a microeconomic farm household model, this effort is pursued by a methodology consisting of three interrelated steps. These steps include the analysis of...
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Estimating Mixed Logit Recreation Demand Models With Large Choice Sets
Domanski, Adam - 2009
Discrete choice models are widely used in studies of recreation demand. They have proven valuable when modeling situations where decision makers face large choice sets and site substitution is important. However, when the choice set faced by the individual becomes very large (on the order of...
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Three Essays on Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling in Microeconometrics
Jochmann, Markus - 2006
framework to data from Germany.The second essay is also concerned with count data but focuses on the estimation of causal …
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Indirect Estimation of Linear Models with Ordinal Regressors. A Monte Carlo Study and some Empirical Illustrations.
Kukuk, Martin - 1998
This paper investigates the effects of ordinal regressors in linear regression models. Each ordered categorical variable is interpreted as a rough measurement of an underlying continuous variable as it is often done in microeconometrics for the dependent variable. It is shown that using ordinal...
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Analyzing Ordered Categorical Data derived from Elliptically Symmetric Distributions
Kukuk, Martin - 1998
The polychoric correlation is an ML estimator for the correlation parameter between two latent variables. Each latent variable is only observed as an ordered categorical indicator. This estimator is based on an assumption on the joint distribution for the latent variables which in this case is...
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Marco de análisis individual y sectorial del impacto de los riesgos económicos y financieros
Pérez Montes, Carlos; Ferrer Pérez, Alex; Álvarez …
The Banco de España uses various microeconomic models, mostly of an empirical nature, to support its decision-making in relation to the analysis of economic and financial risks and economic policy advice. These models, which complement those of a macroeconomic nature, seeks to identify the...
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Individual and sectoral analysis framework for the impact of economic and financial risks
Pérez Montes, Carlos; Ferrer Pérez, Alex; Jiménez, …
El Banco de España utiliza distintos modelos de carácter microeconómico, mayoritariamente de naturaleza empírica, para sustentar su toma de decisiones en relación con el análisis de los riesgos económicos y financieros y del asesoramiento de la política económica. Esta familia de...
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The spatial and sectoral distribution of multinational activities in Eastern Europe
Farid Toubal - 2004
The last three decades have witnessed a spectacular integration of the world economy. On the one hand, the impact of the globalization on the economies is related to the activity of firms operating on a "multi-national" scale. These firms acquire subsidiaries abroad, move part of their...
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Economic internationalisation and the distribution of income : a comparison of the cases of Germany and the U.S.
Wacker, Ulrich - 2002
U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework … reality of labour market rationing and itsdistributional implications both in the U.S. and Germany. … U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework …
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