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The Money Metric, Price and Quantity Aggregation and Welfare Measurement
Hillinger, Claude - In: Contributions in Macroeconomics 3 (2003) 1
The paper presents a general theory of the aggregation of prices and quantities that unifies the field and relates … topics that in the past have been treated separately and unsatisfactorily, or not at all. The theory does without the common … the theory lead to Törnqvist indexes defined on the appropriate data set. A numerical example confirms that in the non …
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The Assembly of Rents
Wong, Kwok C. - In: Man and the Economy 3 (2016) 1, pp. 97-104
Abstract There are fixed costs in production. One has to assemble rents earned in production lines to cover them. There are also fixed costs in consumption. Consumers assemble surpluses to cover them. In either case, rent assemblage could either be a quantity solution, a quality solution, or a...
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The Liftoff of Consumer Benefits from the Broadband Revolution
Dutz, Mark A.; Orszag, Jonathan M.; Willig, Robert D. - In: Review of Network Economics 11 (2012) 4
Abstract This paper uses both a discrete choice demand model and a direct survey method to derive robust measures of the contribution of home broadband to consumer welfare during the early years of broadband adoption by U.S. households. We estimate a demand system that distinguishes between...
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Review of valuation from a non‐market perspective: travel cost method for rural tourism
Herman bin Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul; Samdin, Zaiton; … - In: Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 5 (2013) 4, pp. 329-341
Purpose – The study aims to conduct a critical analysis of available economic tools to value non‐market rural tourism products and services, and assess the strengths and weaknesses of these tools. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews existing valuation methods to better...
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Verzerrungen von Konsumentenpreisindices und ihr Einfluss auf das „reale“ Wirtschaftswachstum – dargestellt am Beispiel der USA / Biases in Consumer Price Indices and Their Impact...
Hartwig, Jochen; Schips, Bernd - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 225 (2005) 4, pp. 394-412
Zusammenfassung Der Aufsatz gibt einen Überblick über die Quellen von Verzerrungen des US-amerikanischen Konsumentenpreisindexes (CPI) nach oben sowie nach unten und diskutiert die Maßnahmen, die das Bureau of Labor Statistics ergriffen hat, um sie zu beseitigen. Die verbliebenen Verzerrungen...
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Reconsideration of Weighting and Updating Procedures in the US CPI
Greenlees, John S.; Williams, Elliot - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 230 (2010) 6, pp. 741-758
Summary In 2002, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) introduced a supplemental C-CPI-U employing a superlative formula to provide a closer approximation to a cost-of-living index (COLI). This paper focuses on whether the BLS can improve upon the headline CPI-U’s current biennial weight...
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Hedonic Price Indexes: A Comparison of Imputation, Time Dummy and ’Re-Pricing’ Methods
Haan, Jan de - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 230 (2010) 6, pp. 772-791
Summary The main approaches to measuring hedonic indexes in the academic literature are the imputation approach and the time dummy approach. This paper compares both approaches, discusses an alternative method called hedonic re-pricing, and comments on a recent contribution by Diewert et al....
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Regional Consumer Price Differences Within Germany
Linz, Stefan - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 230 (2010) 6, pp. 814-831
Summary Every month the Consumer Price Index for Germany (CPI) provides comprehensive and detailed information regarding the price development over time. However, when differences in the price level across regions in Germany have to be analysed at a given point in time, sufficient information is...
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Teilhabe atypisch Beschäftigter: Einkommen, Sozialversicherungsrechte und betriebliche Mitbestimmung / Participation rights of atypical employed persons: Income, social insurance r...
Buschoff, Karin Schulze - In: Arbeit 23 (2014) 3, pp. 211-224
gilt. Dies wird anhand der zentralen Dimensionen Einkommen, Einbeziehung in die Sozialversicherung und betriebliche …
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Betriebliche Weiterbildung, Mobilität und Beschäftigungsdynamik / On the Job Training, Mobility and Employment Dynamics
Hübler, Olaf; König, Anja - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 219 (1999) 1-2, pp. 165-193
Zusammenfassung Untersucht wird, ob betriebliche Weiterbildung die Mobilitätsneigung der Beschäftigten eher verstärkt oder reduziert, ob es Unterschiede in der Weiterbildung bei verschiedenen Beschäftigtengruppen gibt und ob externe Effekte auftreten, also auch diejenigen Arbeitskräfte, die...
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