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Unintended Consequences of Childcare Regulation in Chile: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Villena, Mauricio G.; Sanchez, Rafael; Rojas, Eugenio - 2011
In several countries governments fund childcare provision, but in many others it is privately funded as labour regulation mandates that firms have to provide childcare services. For this latter case, there is no empirical evidence on the effects generated by the financial burden of childcare...
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choice of remuneration regime in fisheries: the case of Hawaii’s longline fisheries
Nguyen, Quang - 2009
One of the most prominent features of remuneration in the Hawaii’s longline fisheries industry has been the norm of share contract regimes. This paper investigates whether the use of share contract regime is positively correlated to increased economic returns. The principal-agent framework is...
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Performance Pay as an Incentive for Lower Absence Rates in Britain
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2009
Using two cross-sections of a representative dataset of British establishments, the effect of various forms of incentive pay (e.g. performance-related pay (PRP), profit-sharing, share ownership, cash bonuses) on the absence rates of firms is investigated. Incentives that are tightly linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015218837
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Variety of Performance Pay and Firm Performance: Effect of Financial Incentives on Worker Absence and Productivity
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2009
Using two cross-sections of a representative dataset of British establishments, the effect of various forms of performance-related pay (objective/subjective, individual/group/collective) on the absence rates and productivity of firms is investigated. Incentives that are tied to the subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219182
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Regional Integration and Industrial Location in a Landlocked Spatial Economy
Shrestha, Hemanta; Heffley, Dennis - 2003
simulated spatial labor market model is used to explore the economic effects of various stages of regional integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429917
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Addressing issues in sparseness, ecological bias and formulation of the adjacency matrix in Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of disease counts
Earnest, Arul - 2010
ecological spatial model, and this is done in chapter 8. Finally, I wanted to put together the earlier improvements to the CAR … performed better than the usual models, but only when both outcomes shared a strong spatial correlation. The next objective … spatial correlation in the outcomes, as well as accommodating both individual and areal measures of covariates. Using the …
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Understanding Spatial Welfare Impacts of a Grain Ethanol Plant
Van Wart, Justin; Perrin, Richard K. - 2009
paper, a programming approach is used in tandem with spatial economic theory to understand the spatial welfare impacts of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444790
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MANUFACTURING SECTOR PRODUCTIVITY IN INDIA: ALL INDIA TRENDS, REGIONAL PATTERNS, AND NETWORK EXTERNALITIES FROM INFRASTRUCTURE ON REGIONAL GROWTH
Mohommad, Adil - 2010
. Finally, in a spatial econometric framework, I test for the presence and magnitude of network spillovers from infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450667
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DISCRETE CHOICE UNDER SPATIAL DEPENDENCE AND A MODEL OF INTERDEPENDENT PATENT RENEWALS
Iercosan, Diana A. - 2011
description of the structure of the thesis.Chapter 2 provides a literature review of studies that have focused on spatial … analogue of a linear probability can be formulated as a spatial autoregressive Cliff and Ord (1973, 1981)-type model. The sets … of Monte Carlo experiments show that the parameters of the model can be estimated without bias using a spatial 2SLS …
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Развитие трудового потенциала АПК Казахстана: эконометрический анализ
Saginova, Sania; Stukach, Victor; Sultanova, Guzel - 2022
Purpose - to conduct study of current state of labor potential of rural areas, prospects for the development of social and economic aspects of rural areas in successful modernization. Consider theoretical foundations of economic and mathematical modeling of the dynamics of labor potential...
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