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Mit Sicherheit besser? : Aktivierung und Flexicurity in Dänemark
Bogedan, Claudia - 2005
Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik in Dänemark haben von Wissenschaft und Politik in den letzten Jahren große Aufmerksamkeit erhalten, da das kleine Land als erfolgreicher Wohlfahrtsstaatsmodernisierer gilt. Das dänische Beschäftigungswunder wird dabei als Gegenentwurf zu einer Politik...
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Social Security, Differential Fertility, and the Dynamics of the Earnings Distribution
Zhao, Kai - 2009
Economists and demographers have long argued that fertility differs by income (differential fertility), and that social security creates incentives for people to rear fewer children. Does the effect of social security on fertility differ by income? How does social security change the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447209
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A day with Dr. Peter F. Drucker: business and management, volume XV, tape II
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand)
During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "From Counting to Measurements" he discusses accounting and measurement. During …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429633
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Social security reform with imperfect substitution between less and more experienced workers
Rojas Blaya, Juan Alberto - 2008
In this paper we study the quantitative properties of a policy reform aimed at funding the pension system in the standard model economy with perfect substitution across workers with different experience levels and a model economy where this substitutability is imperfect. With compulsory...
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The dynamic effect of public expenditure shocks in the United States
Párraga Rodríguez, Susana - 2016
Este trabajo estima el efecto agregado dinámico de shocks exógenos a dos componentes clave del gasto público en Estados Unidos, las transferencias de renta y el gasto gubernamental en bienes y servicios. La estrategia de identificación instrumenta los shocks estructurales al gasto público...
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Forecasting Field Defect Rates Using a Combined Time-based and Metrics-based Approach: a Case Study of OpenBSD
Luo Li, Paul; Herbsleb, James; Shaw, Mary - 2005
Open source software systems are critical infrastructure for many applications; however, little has been precisely measured about their quality. Forecasting the field defect-occurrence rate over the entire lifespan of a release before deployment for open source software systems may enable...
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Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters
Chen, Daniel L.; Horton, John J.; Shaw, Aaron D. - 2011
The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this paper, we report the results of an experiment - conducted in an online labor market - that measured the effectiveness of...
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Ability Estimation Under Different Item Parameterization and Scoring Models
Si, Ching-Fung B. - 2002
A Monte Carlo simulation study investigated the effect of scoring format, item parameterization, threshold configuration, and prior ability distribution on the accuracy of ability estimation given various IRT models. Item response data on 30 items from 1,000 examinees was simulated using known...
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Examining the Cross-National Applicability of Multi-Item, Multidimensional Measures using Generalizability Theory
Durvasula, Srinivas; Netemeyer, Richard G.; Andrews, J. … - 2006
cross-nationally. Typically, researchers have relied upon the tenets of classical measurement theory (CT) using confirmatory …-national applicability? Our research seeks to address these issues and the cross-national measurement applicability of multi … demonstrate the usefulness of GT to cross-national multi-dimensional measurement. …
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Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity
Pallage, Stephane; Scruggs, Lyle; Zimmermann, Christian - 2008
In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit...
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