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Score-based tests of measurement invariance : use in practice
Wang, Ting; Merkle, Edgar C.; Zeileis, Achim - 2013
In this paper, we consider a family of recently-proposed measurement invariance tests that are based on the scores of a … fitted model. This family can be used to test for measurement invariance w.r.t. a continuous auxiliary variable, without pre …-specification of subgroups. Moreover, the family can be used when one wishes to test for measurement invariance w.r.t. an ordinal …
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Labor productivity slowdown in the developed economies : another productivity puzzle?
Erber, Georg; Fritsche, Ulrich; Harms, Patrick - 2016
The paper addresses the topic of an overall long-term productivity slowdown in labor productivity for a panel of 25 developed countries. Besides studying individual long-term trends of single countries using filtering techniques we also test for multiple structural breakpoints in the long-term...
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Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skill measures
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
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Developing a measure for conversational learning spaces in teams
Lingham, Tony - 2004
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Did output gap measurement improve over time?
Chiu, Adrian; Wieladek, Tomasz - 2012
measurement errors has shifted. Surprisingly, we do not find evidence that the size of output gap revisions has decreased over … time; on the contrary, they seem to have increased. But the fraction of measurement errors due to omitted contemporaneous … information has declind. This suggests that while the OECD's accuracy in output gap measurement has failed to improve, its …
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Measuring intercultural sensitivity in different cultural context
Fritz, Wolfgang; Möllenberg, Antje; Chen, Guo-Ming - 2000
As a main dimension of intercultural communication competence, intercultural sensitivity has increasingly gained attention in research in different disciplines. In the United States, Chen and Starosta have developed an instrument, comprising 5 factors with 24 items, for measuring intercultural...
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A dynamic factor model for Icelandic core inflation
Bjarni G. Einarsson - 2014
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Die Operationalisierung von Unternehmenskultur : Validierung eines Messinstruments
Unterreitmeier, Andreas; Schwinghammer, Florian - 2004
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Weekly economic activity: measurement and informational content
Wegmüller, Philipp; Glocker, Christian; Guggia, Valentino - 2021 - This version: April 1, 2021
We construct a composite index to measure real activity of the Swiss economy on a weekly frequency. The index is based on a novel high-frequency data-set capturing economic activity across distinct dimensions over a long-time horizon. An adequate adjustment of raw data prior to deriving the...
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Tracking economic growth in real time during the pandemic : a rationale for a revision of €-coin
Aprigliano, Valentina; Emiliozzi, Simone; Lippi, Marco - 2022
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