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Changes in the distribution of farm wealth in the United States

Mishra, Ashok K.; Moss, Charles B.; Erickson, Kenneth W. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 67 (2007) 1, pp. 119-134

This paper examines the changes in farm sector wealth from 1949 through 2002. The study uses Theil’s entropy‐based measure of inequality of farm wealth for 10 regions of the United States. The entropy measure is then used to decompose U.S. inequality into within‐region and between‐region...

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Produktdiversifizierung: Konvergenz zwischen ost- und westdeutschen Unternehmen / Product Diversification: Have East-German Enterprises Caught-Up with the West? : Eine Dekomposition mit Mikrodaten der amtlichen Statistik / A Comparative Analysis Using Register-Based Micro Data

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2007) 2, pp. 168-186

a nonparametric decomposition that yields estimates of the structural and regional components of the West-East gap. We …

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Trade, Technique and Composition Effects: What is Behind the Fall in World-wide SO2 Emissions, 1990-2000?

de Melo, Jaime; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

, an emission-decomposition exercise shows that scale effects are dominated by technique effects working towards a …

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Poor Background or Low Returns? Why Immigrant Students in Germany Perform so Poorly in the Programme for International Student Assessment

Ammermueller, Andreas - In: Education Economics 15 (2007) 2, pp. 215-230

-Murphy-Pierce decomposition. The analysis reveals that German students have a more favourable family background, particularly in the lower part of …

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Testing for Equal Predictability of Stationary ARMA Processes

Otrano, Edoardo; Triacca, Umberto - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 34 (2007) 9, pp. 1091-1108

by time series having a Wold decomposition with weights having the same sign; in this framework the equal predictability …

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Competing Networks, Spatial and Industrial Concentration in the US Airline Industry

Reynolds-Feighan, Aisling - In: Spatial Economic Analysis 2 (2007) 3, pp. 237-257

Abstract The paper uses Gini decomposition analysis to evaluate changes in the spatial distribution and industry shares … of total US air traffic, as well as analysing the decomposition components for individual airlines and airports for the … period 1990–2002. The paper develops explicit relationships between two of the main decomposition schemes used in the income …

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Understanding changes in Māori incomes and income inequality 1997–2003

Dixon, Sylvia; Maré, David - In: Journal of Population Economics 20 (2007) 3, pp. 571-598

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STRUCTURE CONTROL AND FERROELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF SrBi4Ti4O15 THIN FILMS ON Si SUBSTRATES COATED BY (100)- AND (110)-ORIENTED LaNiO3 ELECTRODES

WANG, PILONG; HU, GUANGDA; DING, YANXIA; FAN, SUHUA - In: Surface Review and Letters (SRL) 14 (2007) 03, pp. 435-438

decomposition (MOD) technique at an annealing temperature of 650°C. c-axis-oriented SBTi thin film with volume fraction of 0.89 can …

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Public vs. private sector earnings differentials in the Caribbean region: evidence from the economy of trinidad & tobago

Coppin, Addington; Olsen, Reed Neil - In: Journal of Developing Areas 40 (2007) 2, pp. 51-74

This article uses 1993 data from the Trinidad and Tobago Continuous Sample Survey of the Population to investigate patterns of remuneration across its public and private sectors. Unlike results from developed countries, the large earnings premium to public sector workers in Trinidad & Tobago...

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Renewable energy systems: A societal and technological platform

Polatidis, Heracles; Haralambopoulos, Dias A. - In: Renewable Energy 32 (2007) 2, pp. 329-341

wider socio-economic aspects of renewable energy systems and to provide for an operational analytical decomposition of them …. In this work the issue of decomposition analysis is clarified, and a new agenda for the societal and technological … decomposition analysis of renewable energy systems is developed. A case study is disclosed to present the relevance of the …

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