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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"micro data"”.
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Determinants of female labour force participation in Zambia: a micro data analysis.
… employed the Logit Model to analyse secondary data from 2014 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey. The results suggest that an increase in age influence women to join the labour force. Women with primary, secondary and higher education are more economically active than those without. Ownership …
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Determinants of female labour force participation in Zambia: a micro data analysis.
… employed the Logit Model to analyse secondary data from 2014 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey. The results suggest that an increase in age influence women to join the labour force. Women with primary, secondary and higher education are more economically active than those without. Ownership …
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Hetrogenous impact of interest rates on retail firm prices : a product-level analysis using micro-data from Lesotho
… rate affect prices. Several recent studies using micro price data have highlighted the importance of the variation in firm characteristics on pricing decisions. This study investigates whether firms adjust their prices in response to higher interest rates and whether this response differs for …
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An empirical analysis of European retail banking integration
… the period 1990-2008 by analysing both macro and micro data for the 15 European Union countries. The macro-data analysis is performed on 19 sets of various monthly retail deposit and lending rates to the two components of retail banking, i.e. households and non-financial corporations. The …
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An Examination of the Relative Wage Rate of Artists
… treatment. The One Percent Public-Use Micro-data Samples from the 1990 and 2000 Censuses were used to assess any variation in this treatment between 1990 and 2000. The results show that there is an increase in the rate at which artists are compensated in salaried employment from 1990 to …
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The shape of segregation : the role of urban form in immigrant assimilation
… of immigrants at the building level. I use micro-data that includes the exact address of all the foreign and native population in Barcelona, combined with geometric indicators for urban shape at the block level. Using these data, I construct measures of segregation over time to evaluate the …
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RELIGION AND WOMEN'S STATUS ATTAINMENT: A COMPARATIVE AND HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS
… utilized cross-national and cross-sectional micro-data, internationally comparable macro-data, and hierarchical methodology to model variability in status attainment by religious factors, gender traditionalism, and contextual features of the fifty-seven countries included in the sample. The …
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Essays on household incomes and public policies
… a tax-benefit model EUROMOD with household micro-data. Chapter 1 is concerned with the impact on income inequality of the substantial increase in the number of university graduates in Great Britain. Chapter 2 studies the impact on the income distribution of automatic stabilisers and …
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Empirical testing of real option-pricing models using land price index in Japan
… Tokyo. The model in this research analyzes micro land prices covering individual lot data provided by the Land Price Index. Since land prices are determined by both macro economic environment and micro lot-specific attributes, this paper utilizes both time-series economic data and …
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Essays in entrepreneurial finance
… are supplemented with detailed and comprehensive micro data that allow me to both explore and the refine the mechanisms at play in more detail. The final paper is more descriptive in nature and examines how the variation in entrepreneurs' use of Diaspora networks in developing countries is related …
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Two essays on consumer credit as a claim on workers’ income
… 1: Does Paycheck Frequency Matter? Evidence from Micro Data Paycheck frequency is a salient labor income characteristic to which all workers are exposed. Using a unique dataset from an online account aggregator, we study whether paycheck frequency affects household financial outcomes. Looking at …
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Demand for health care services in the urban areas of Zimbabwe : a case study of the Harare city
… in dealing with illness are also investigated. Micro data was gathered by administering a questionnaire to randomly selected individuals who experienced some illness or injury during the reference period. For empirical estimation, logistic regression was used. The results of the study show that …
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Essays in economic geography: Convergence, inequalities and innovations in the knowledge economy
… on regional labor markets. The second paper uses microdata to evaluate what is termed conditional sigma convergence. Finally, the third paper uses innovations, as proxied by patents, and studies determinants of innovation intensity in reference to measures of human capital and economic structure …
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Exits, entrances and entrepreneurship : an exploration of economic theories of entrepreneurship through new independent entry and infant exit
… from a sample of firms taken from a new micro-data set established as part of the work of the thesis. Discriminant Analysis establishes the variables which best distinguish between survivors and non-survivors. The variables which emerge as important discriminators are consistent with the …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Inequality, Wealth, and Money
… by most scholars; I use large confidential micro-data on millions of Europeans to construct granular household-level measures of economic risk and social protection, which go far beyond the country-level measures standard in most of the literature; with my two co-authors, I further provide …
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ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING THE PARTICIPATION RATE OF ENTERPRISE ANNUITY
… based on the latest nationally representative micro data CHIP 2018. The analysis uses the "bivariate Probit model", that is, the enterprise level and the individual level, employing 0-1 bivariate as the dependent variables and employee income, employee education, employee gender, enterprise …
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Applications of Demand Estimation to the Child Care Market
… The demand system is estimated on provider level data using the method of Berry et al. (1995). Welfare estimates are computed for the value of the ratings to consumers in different locations. Variation in local value of the ratings is driven by density of providers. The value of the ratings is …
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THREE ESSAYS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS
… should be reduced. Results based on election data from three U.S. cities confirm these hypothesis, which suggest that local policies may tend to cater to the tastes of homeowners over renters. The second chapter develops a new method to identify and control for selection when estimating the …
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Analysis of the factors influencing higher education participation
… using Higher Education Statistics Agency data: the effects of tuition fees, differences in participation by gender and student mobility. These research themes are pertinent to policy in the provision of higher education.;The chapter 'Tuition Fees and Higher Education Participation' …
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Modelagem dos registros de nascimentos com as condições de vida no semiárido brasileiro
… for monitoring and improving the quality of data. The current work aimed modeling the variable birth record with the living conditions of the Brazilian Semiarid, by logistic regression. Therefore, it made use of micro data from the Census 2010 taking into consideration to the item …
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