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part of their curriculum in an international business program in the Netherlands. We exploit the fact that companies are …
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This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...
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ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one …
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This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...
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- provided the models is calibrated - this suffice for measurement. This paper explores this construction of a measuring device … in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … measurement to take place by modelling behaviour according to some assumptions, which operate as constraints. While this Weibull …
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We propose a method of measuring and decomposing inequity in health care utilization that allows for heterogeneity in the use-need relationship. This makes explicit inequity that derives from unequal treatment response to variation in need, as well as that due to differential effects of non-need...
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What is a 'sustainable nation' and how can we identify and rank 'sustainable nations'? Are nations producing and consuming in a sustainable way? Aggregate indicators have been proposed to answer these questions. This paper quantitatively compares three aggregate indicators of sustainability: the...
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This paper investigates two different procedures for the measurement of the NAIRU; one based on structural modeling … while the other is a statistical approach using Vector Auto Regression (VAR)-models. Both measurement procedures are … assessed by confronting them with the dominant theory of measurement, the Representation Theory of Measurement, which states …
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correction term is obtained from studying the estimator of the Gini index within a measurement error framework. In addition, it …
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relationship and measurement. We show that satisfaction contains success as one component, and that both coincide under the …
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