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Gendered globalization: The relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities

Roll, Yoav; Semyonov, Moshe; Mandel, Hadas - 2022

Despite the steady increase in the number of women who join the labor force, there are still substantial cross-country variations in both women's labor force participation and gender-linked occupational inequality. Utilizing micro-data from 47 countries (circa 2013) obtained from the Luxembourg...

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Interracial Marriage in the U.S. in 2006

Poston, Dudley L. (contributor) - 2009

levels below other types of interracial/interethnic unions. Prior research has centered largely on individual-level factors … associated with the formation of such unions, culminating in three not entirely consistent micro-level theories: status …-level characteristics, which I argue should have an independent effect on the incidence of these unions. My dissertation explores these …

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Overeducation, Regional Labour Markets and Spatial Flexibility

Büchel, Felix; van Ham, Maarten - 2002

For most workers, access to suitable employment is severely restricted by the fact that they look for jobs in the regional labour market rather than the global one. In this paper we analyse how macro-level opportunities (regional labour market characteristics) and microlevel restrictions (the...

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Modeling House Prices using Multilevel Structured Additive Regression

Brunauer, Wolfgang; Lang, Stefan; Umlauf, Nikolaus - 2010

This paper analyzes house price data belonging to three hierarchical levels of spatial units. House selling prices with associated individual attributes (the elementary level-1) are grouped within municipalities (level-2), which form districts (level-3), which are themselves nested in counties...

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Applications of Multilevel Structured Additive Regression Models to Insurance Data

Lang, Stefan; Umlauf, Nikolaus - 2010

Models with structured additive predictor provide a very broad and rich framework for complex regression modeling. They can deal simultaneously with nonlinear covariate effects and time trends, unit- or cluster specific heterogeneity, spatial heterogeneity and complex interactions between...

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Statistical risk analysis for real estate collateral valuation using Bayesian distributional and quantile regression

Razen, Alexander; Brunauer, Wolgang; Klein, Nadja; … - 2014

The Basel II framework strictly defines the conditions under which financial institutions are authorized to accept real estate as collateral in order to decrease their credit risk. A widely used concept for its valuation is the hedonic approach. It assumes, that a property can be characterized...

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Spatial-Ethnic Inequalities: The Role of Location in the Estimation of Ethnic Wage Differentials

Longhi, Simonetta - 2017

Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour market and therefore facing similar socio-economic...

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Keeping up with the Novaks? Income distribution as a determinant of household debt in CESEE

Hake, Mariya; Poyntner, Philipp - 2020

This paper constitutes an initial attempt to shed light on the role of income distribution in household debt and financial market access in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE). Using household-level data from the OeNB's Euro Survey for the period 2009-2018, we address the question...

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Fixed effects and variance components estimation in three-level meta-analysis

Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2011

Meta-analytic methods have been widely applied to education, medicine, and the social sciences. Much of meta-analytic data are hierarchically structured since effect size estimates are nested within studies, and in turn studies can be nested within level-3 units such as laboratories or...

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Explaining Variations in Breast Cancer Screening Across European Countries

Wübker, Ansgar - 2012

This paper explores variations in the uptake of breast cancer screening and associated factors influencing utilisation of mammography screening among women aged 50 to 69 years in 13 European countries. We focus on the relative importance of individual (e.g. age, education, etc.) and...

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