We consider the identification problem for the model of Lee and Carter (1992).  The parameters of this model are known only to be identified up to certain transformations.  Forecasts from the model may therefore depend on the arbitrarily chosen identification scheme.  A condition for...

Purpose – Previous research has demonstrated the positive impact of relocation mobility on career success. Based on conservation‐of‐resources theory and knowledge about resistance to change, this study aims to explore the role of personality dispositions and social orientations in...

Latent variable modelling is used widely in applications to economics, social and behavioural sciences. Since the normality-based model fitting procedures are simple and broadly available, and since such procedures are often applied to non-normal data or non-random samples, it is important to...