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The good governance indicators of the millennium challenge account: How many dimensions are really being measured?
Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra - 2011
This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...
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What money buys: Clients of street sex workers in the U.S.
Della Giusta, Marina; DiTommaso, Maria Laura; Shima, Isilda - 2006
An econometric model that explores the effect of personal characteristics and attitudes of clients on their demand for prostitution is estimated on data from a survey of clients of street sex workers in the US. The results reveal that clients of street sex workers in our sample have two...
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Tracing the Changing Measures of Unemployment in Dutch Unemployment Statistics 1900-1940
Rodenburg, Peter - 2001
In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper...
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Estimating trends in US income inequality using the current population survey: the importance of controlling for censoring
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2008
Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (19752004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations are imputed using draws from a Generalized Beta distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the...
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Assessing indexation-based Calvo inflation models
Dufour, Jean-Marie; Khalaf, Lynda; Kichian, Maral - 2009
Using identification-robust methods, the authors estimate and evaluate for Canada and the United States various classes of inflation equations based on generalized structural Calvo-type models. The models allow for different forms of frictions and vary in their assumptions regarding the type of...
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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance
Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - 2011
Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...
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Generalized Measurement Invariance Tests with Application to Factor Analysis
Merkle, Edgar C.; Zeileis, Achim - 2011
The issue of measurement invariance commonly arises in factor-analytic contexts, with methods for assessment including … groups, group membership, and offending model parameters. In this paper, we construct tests of measurement invariance based … measurement invariance violations, and (2) identifying subgroups of individuals that violated measurement invariance based on a …
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A solution to the problem of too many instruments in dynamic panel data GMM
Mehrhoff, Jens - 2009
The well-known problem of too many instruments in dynamic panel data GMM is dealt with in detail in Roodman (2009, Oxford Bull. Econ. Statist.). The present paper goes one step further by providing a solution to this problem: factorisation of the standard instrument set is shown to be a valid...
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A solution to the problem of too many instruments in dynamic panel data GMM
Mehrhoff, Jens - 2009
The well-known problem of too many instruments in dynamic panel data GMM is dealt with in detail in Roodman (2009, Oxford Bull. Econ. Statist.). The present paper goes one step further by providing a solution to this problem: factorisation of the standard instrument set is shown to be a valid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300222
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Die Qualität von Berufsakademien aus Unternehmenssicht - eine empirische Untersuchung
Naujoks, Petra - 2007
Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Qualität von Berufsakademien aus Arbeitgebersicht. Es erfolgt zunächste eine Aufarbeitung der theoretischen Grundlagen für Dienstleistungsqualität, insbesondere aus der Perspektive von Bildungsinstitutionen, insbesondere von Berufsakademien. Anschließend...
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