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Health Econometric: Uncovering the Anthropometric Behavior on Women's Labor Market

Lopez-Pablos, Rodrigo A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Exploring current literature which assess relations between cognitive ability and height, obesity, and its productivity-employability effect on women's labor market; we appraised the Argentine case to find these social-physical relations that involve anthropometric and traditional economic...

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Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors: A Representation Index

Pendakur, Krishna; Pendakur, Ravi; Woodcock, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Recent research on glass ceilings and sticky floors has focused on the magnitude of differences between groups in the upper and lower quantile cutoffs of the conditional wage distribution. However, quantile cutoffs for different groups are only weakly informative of representation. For example,...

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Nonparametric discrimination of time series data

Chinipardaz, Rahim; Cox, Trevor - In: Metrika 59 (2004) 1, pp. 13-20

A normality assumption is usually made for the discrimination between two stationary time series processes. A …) consecutive observations. A numerical comparison is made between Fisher’s linear discrimination based on sample autocorrelations … and kernel density discrimination for AR and MA processes with and without Gaussian noise. The methods are applied to some …

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The location model for mixtures of categorical and continuous variables

Krzanowski, W. - In: Journal of Classification 10 (1993) 1, pp. 25-49

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Reconstructing Distances among Objects from Their Discriminability

Dzhafarov, Ehtibar; Colonius, Hans - In: Psychometrika 71 (2006) 2, pp. 365-386

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Information and racial exclusion

Lundberg, Shelly; Startz, Richard - In: Journal of Population Economics 20 (2007) 3, pp. 621-642

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Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - NET Institute - 2007

competing for Internet access customers. Additionally, we discuss how price and non-price discrimination strategies may be used …

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Competition Policy Issues in the Consumer Payments Industry

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2008

We discuss the current structure of card networks that facilitate transactions between merchants and consumers. We find that presently fees for this intermediation are considerably higher than costs. This is facilitated by rules imposed by the card networks on the merchants that do not allow...

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Generalized Selection Bias and The Decomposition of Wage Differentials

Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

The major contribution of this paper is ending a new and flexible way to measure the effects of selection on log-wages. In this context, we offer a general approach to performing decomposition analysis when selection effects are present. We call the difference between unconditional and...

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"Soft" Skills, "Hard" Skills, and the Black/White Earnings Gap

Fan, C. Simon; Wei, Xiangdong; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper provides both a theoretical and an empirical investigation into the impact of job skill types on the black/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more intensively "soft"/"hard" skills are used in an occupation, the greater/smaller the black/white pay...

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