Search Results - subject:"Probit Model"

The Dynamics of Unemployment, Temporary and Permanent Employment in Italy

Picchio, Matteo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2007

This paper evaluates whether and on the extent to which temporary jobs have been a springboard to regular jobs in Italy. Using the 2000, 2002, and 2004 waves of the Survey of Italian Households' Income and Wealth several dynamic unobserved effects probit models for the probability of having a...

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The Persistence of Welfare Participation

Andrén, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

Welfare persistence is estimated in and compared between Swedish-born and foreignborn households. This is done within the framework of a time-stationary dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity. Three different types of persistence are...

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Distinguishing Chronic Poverty from Transient Poverty in Brazil: Developing a Model for Pseudo-Panel Data

Ribas, Rafael Perez; Machado, Ana Flávia - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2007

Although many studies have addressed poverty in Brazil, very few of them have analyzed the dynamic nature of this phenomenon. In order to fill this gap, this Working Paper seeks to identify the features that determine the permanence of poverty and the downward mobility into poverty of adults in...

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The Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes in the MENA Countries: a Probit Analysis

Daly, Sfia - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2007

exchange regime selection. Keywords: Exchange regime choice, MENA countries, probit model JEL Codes: C25, F33 … use of random effects probit model. A random effect probit allows us to obtain unbiased parameter estimates and …

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Poverty Dynamics in Peru 2001-2003: A Probit Model Analysis

Gambetta Podesta, Renzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The objectives of this paper consist on two main parts:a descriptive one and an explanatory one. For the first part I used transition matrices to identify people who entered and left the poverty line in Peru between 2001-2003.Probabilistic regressions models were used to explain the main...

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Product Market Competition, Regulation and Dividend Payout Policy of Malaysian Banks

Ameer, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper investigates the impact of the product market competition, regulations on the dividend policies of We find significant differences in the payout of the banks categorized as selling a non-interest based banking products and mix of both interest and non-interest based banking products....

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The Socioeconomic Determinants of Individual Environmental Concern: Evidence from Shanghai Data

Shen, Junyi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi - Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), … - 2007

. Unlike those methodologies adopted in many previous studies, we apply an ordered probit model to test three hypotheses (the …

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Economic Valuation of Environmental Values of the Landscape Development and Protection Area of Volcji Potok

Verbic, Miroslav; Erker, Renata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

When the market for a certain good is competitive enough, economic activities can be studied by the market pricing mechanism. Because this is usually not feasible in case of environmental goods with embodied natural and cultural heritage, particular methods for economic valuation of such goods...

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Awareness and the Demand of Safe Drinking Water Practices

Ahmed, Eatzaz; Sattar, Abdul - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2007

, Q25, Q51, R21 Keywords: Demand, Awareness, Safe Drinking Water, Logit Model and Probit Model I … variable. Bivariate Probit Model We will use a bivariate probit model to estimate the effects of different explanatory …. To allow for this, we will begin by estimating a bivariate probit model as system of equations then our econometric …

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Canadian Consumer Attitudes and Purchasing Behaviour of Omega-3 Products

Nilsson, Tomas K.H.; Chase, Darren; Emunu, John Paul; … - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2007

results from the ordered probit model estimation show that an aging (baby boomer) population is the most frequent purchaser of …

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