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Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
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The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...
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Chapter 1: Why Is the Sex Ratio Unbalanced in China? The Roles of the One-Child Policy, Underdeveloped Social Insurance, and Parental ExpectationsThe sex ratio imbalance in China has reached such an alarming level that, by 2020, men of marriageable age are estimated to outnumber women by 24...
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This research applies a divisia index decomposition for analysing the behaviour of carbon-dioxide emissions in the …
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Ecology oriented and market related conceptof a decomposition economy in a circular economyIncreasing disposal problems …-cular economy.This is the background to examine the decomposition economy under the perspective of an ecology oriented approach as … well as a market based approach.This area was mainly chosen because of· the institutional integration of the decomposition …
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countries and then to employ decomposition techniques. Using semiparametric methods, we construct counterfactual wage …
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output level, a regional output decomposition method is introduced. The decomposition method is based on the interregional … technical coefficient and interregional trade coefficients. This decomposition approach highlights the significant role of trade …
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The estimated parameters of output distance functions frequently violate the monotonicity, quasi-convexity and convexity constraints implied by economic theory, leading to estimated elasticities and shadow prices that are incorrectly signed, and ultimately to perverse conclusions concerning the...
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Rule-Based Forecasting (RBF) is an expert system that uses judgment to develop and apply rules for combining extrapolations. The judgment comes from two sources, forecasting expertise and domain knowledge. Forecasting expertise is based on more than a half century of research. Domain knowledge...
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In this article we introduce a decomposition of the joint distribution of price changes of assets recorded trade …-by-trade. Our decomposition means that we can model the dynamics of price changes using quite simple and interpretable models which …). 'Dynamics of trade-by-trade price movements: decomposition and models', Journal of Financial Econometrics, 1(1), 2 …
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