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Urbanization in industrialized countries: Appearances are deceptive

Von Auer, Ludwig; Trede, Mark - 2021

This study introduces the urbanicity index of employment. Unlike traditional measures of urbanization (e.g., urbanization rate), the urbanicity index is distance-based and accounts for the scale aspect as well as the concentration aspect of urbanization. The concentration aspect can be...

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Measuring Mobile Broadband Challenges and Implications for Policymaking

Frias, Zoraida; Lehr, William; Stocker, Volker; Mendo, Luis - 2023

methods used to collect measurement data are changing, the ecosystem of stakeholders with strategic interests in mobile … measurement is growing and becoming more complex, posing challenges and opportunities for policymakers. Against the background of … this growing complexity, this paper aims to discuss some basic features of a capable and reliable measurement ecosystem for …

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Measuring Social Preferences in Developing Economies

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Levely, Ian - 2023

For the past two decades, studies measuring social preferences in developing settings have played an important role in building our understanding of economic development and poverty. This book chapter reviews lab-in-the-field experiments that measure social preferences, summarizes categories of...

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The Mismeasurement of Work Time: Implications for Wage Discrimination and Inequality

Borjas, George J.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2023

wage differentials between 1978 to 2018. After adjusting for the measurement errors and excluding imputations, we find that …

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Data on private pension saving in UK surveys

O'Brien, Laurence - 2023

This report documents the quality of private pension saving data collected in UK household surveys.

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Isograph and LaSiPiKa Distribution: The Comparative Morphology of Income Inequalities and Intelligible Parameters of 53 LIS Countries 1967-2020

Chauvel, Louis - 2023

The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results, and is implemented on 53 LIS countries (with an annex covering 655 LIS country-year samples). The gb2 and other classical distributions (FC, Dagum, SinghMaddala) are presented...

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Communication matters: Sensitivity in fairness evaluations across wealth inequality expressions and levels

Oppel, Annalena - 2023

This paper seeks to understand whether the way in which inequality is communicated through measurements influences individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality, such as the Gini coefficient, fall short of...

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The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) Dataset: Technical Report V2

Berger, Valentin; Bjerre, Liv; Breyer, Magdalena; … - 2024

The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database includes data on migration policies for 33 OECD countries and the period 1980-2018. The dataset is presented in Helbling, Marc, Liv Bjerre, Friederike Römer and Malisa Zobel (2016) "Measuring Immigration Policies: The IMPIC-Database",...

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A choice-based approach to the measurement of inflation expectations

Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; Kieren, Pascal; Trautmann, Stefan T. - 2024

In macroeconomic surveys, inflation expectations are commonly elicited via density forecasts in which respondents assign probabilities to pre-specified ranges in inflation. This question format is increasingly subject to criticism. In this study, we propose a new method to elicit inflation...

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Supply chain viability: conceptualization, measurement, and nomological validation

Ruel, Salomée; El Baz, Jamal; Ivanov, Dmitry; Das, Ajay - In: Annals of Operations Research (2021), pp. 1-30

conceptualize, develop, and validate a measurement scale for SCV. SCV is first defined and operationalized as a construct, followed …

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