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Annual P Limit also increased the probability of a runoff event following manure application, relative to the other two …
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This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
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significant effect on mortality even in old age. An extra year of schooling is estimated to reduce the probability of dying … to reduce the probability of dying between the ages of 81 and 88 by a remarkable 17-26 percentage points but this does …
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The establishment of appropriate policy measures for fighting unemployment has always been difficult since causes of unemployment are hard to identify. This paper analyses an approach used mainly in the 1960s and 1970s in economics, in which classification is used as a way to deal with such a...
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cointegrated with other procurement prices and then test for causality among the price series. Cash prices were cointegrated with … causality was found in some but not all cases. Thus, cash market prices remain of central importance in price discovery for fed …
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-Gaussian distribution to obtain causal structure of innovations from an error correction model. The structure of interdependencies among six …
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We analyze the distribution of economic activity across space for different types of activity and different levels of … aggregation. Not only is this distribution highly uneven (independently of the type of activity and level of aggregation), it is … also remarkably regular regarding its size distribution (rank-size rule or Zipf’s Law) and regarding its interaction …
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In this paper we analyse the market integration process of the relative price distribution, develop a model to analyze … distribution. We present concepts and definitions related to the market integration process, link this to price convergence in … distribution, argue that the Law of One Price (LOP) is not a sufficient condition for market integration, and present a formal test …
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distribution free and its sample counterpart is shown to be consistent. For a wide class of CDFs the exact analytical expression of … the distribution of the sample HM index is derived, assuming the two underlying samples to be drawn from the same … distribution. The robustness of the concomitant test statistic is assessed, and four different methods are discussed for applying …
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Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...
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