We propose an enhancement to the parametric-decomposition method for calculating approximate steady-state performance …

This paper proposes a decomposition method to compute a lower bound for unconstrained quadratic zero-one minimization … decompositions, the best one can be found by a Lagrangian decomposition method. Moreover, we show that our algorithm gives at least …

well as ethnic background. Decomposition analysis indicates that these differences are primarily attributable to …22, J15, D12, E21, C23 Key Words: Immigrant, Ethnicity, Household Savings, Decomposition Analysis Correspondence to … background. Decomposition analysis indicates that these differences are primarily attributable to unobservable rather than to …

acknowledged approaches in the study of income inequality and redistribution: Kakwani’s (1984) decomposition of redistributive … effect into vertical and horizontal effects and Lerman and Yitzhaki’s (1985) decomposition of marginal changes in income …

relies on Bauer’s cost function based decomposition of TFP changes and the duality between input distance and cost functions …