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The Relationship Between Firm Size and Innovation Activity: A Double Decision Approach

Martinez-Ros, Ester; Labeaga, Jose - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 11 (2002) 1, pp. 35-50

The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between firm size and innovation activity using Spanish data at firm level corresponding to the manufacturing sector for the period 1990-93. This exercise is different to previous applications because we allow for different size...

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The Effect of Three-rate Property Taxation on Housing Construction

Lyytikäinen, Teemu - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2007

This paper examines the effect on housing construction of taxing undeveloped residential land at a higher rate than developed land. In 2001, Finnish municipalities were allowed to levy an extra property tax on undeveloped land zoned for housing. The aim of the reform was to encourage housing...

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A Structural Model of Demand for Apprentices

Muehlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg; Winkelmann, Rainer; … - CESifo - 2005

It is a widely held opinion that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, and that therefore firms only train if they have the possibility to recoup these investments after the training period. A recent study using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed,...

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Demand for Higher Education Programs: The Impact of the Bologna Process

Alexandre, Fernando; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Portela, Miguel; … - CESifo - 2007

The Bologna process aims at creating a European Higher Education Area where inter-country mobility of students and staff, as well as workers holding a degree, is facilitated. While several aspects of the process deserve wide public support, the reduction of the length of the first cycle of...

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Non-pecuniary returns to higher education: The effect on smoking intensity in the UK

Miranda, Alfonso; Bratti, Massimiliano - Centre for Economic Research, School of Economics and … - 2006

In this paper we investigate whether higher education (HE) produces non-pecuniary returns via a reduction in the consumption of health-damaging substances. In particular, the paper focuses on studying the smoking intensity of British individuals. We use data on current smokers from the 1970...

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Equity in Health Care Utilisation: Further Tests Based on Hurdle models and Swedish Micro Data

Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1996

This paper tests the null hypothesis of no horisontal inequity in delivery of health care by use of count data Hurdle models and swedish micro data. It differs from most earlier work in three principal ways: First, the tests are carried out separately for physician and hospital care; second, the...

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TWO PAPERS ON FERTILITY - THE CASE OF SWEDEN

Westerberg, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

This thesis consists of two papers dealing with fertility in Sweden. In paper [1] we discuss possible explanations for … the variation in the Swedish fertility. We are primarily interested in economic and social conditions and their impact on … the total fertility rate between 1965 and 2003. The period is chosen because of (i) the strong fluctuation in the TFR …

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COUNTS WITH AN ENDOGENOUS BINARY REGRESSOR: A SERIES EXPANSION APPROACH

Romeu, Andrés; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2004

We propose an estimator for count data regression models where a binary regressor is endogenously determined. This estimator departs from previous approaches by using a flexible form for the conditional probability function of the counts. Using a Monte Carlo experiment we show that our estimator...

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COUNT DATA MODELS FOR A CREDIT SCORING SYSTEM

Guillen, Montserrat; Artis, Manuel - Risk and Insurance Archive - 1994

Credit scoring systems created for the evaluation of new applications are based on the available statistical information which is related to the behaviour of former clients with credit. Usually, financial institutions apply discriminant analysis techniques to create these systems but they lack...

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Maximum likelihood estimation of endogenous switching and sample selection models for binary, ordinal, and count variables

Miranda, Alfonso; Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia - In: Stata Journal 6 (2006) 3, pp. 285-308

Studying behavior in economics, sociology, and statistics often involves fitting models in which the response variable depends on a dummy variable- also known as a regime-switch variable- or in which the response variable is observed only if a particular selection condition is met. In either...

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