The structure of wages and wage determinants has always received attention in economic theories and policies. During the liberalized era, despite labour productivity, market based policies have gained importance in determining the wages. In the present study, the following issues are addressed:...

Contemporary computers collect databases that can be too large for classical methods to handle. The present work takes data whose observations are distribution functions (rather than the single numerical point value of classical data) and presents a computational statistical approach of a new...

In this paper an estimator of finite population kurtosis computed under the two-phase sampling for nonresponse is proposed. The formulas characterizing its asymptotic properties are derived using Taylor linearization technique for the general situation of arbitrary sampling designs in both...

In the longer term null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) will disappear because p- values are not informative and not replicable. Should we continue to teach in the future the procedures of then abolished routines (i.e., NHST)? Three arguments are discussed for not teaching NHST in...

A persistent increase in the unemployment rate ignites speculations about whether the changes to unemployment are structural or cyclical. The New Zealand economy has been through major restructuring since the mid-1980s. The labour market’s institutional changes were the last in the sequence of...