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Block, Joern; Sandner, Philipp - 2006

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity and opportunity entrepreneurs differ in terms of self-employment duration. We find that the two types of entrepreneurs differ regarding their duration in self-employment. Once controlled for educational...

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İşletme Kuluçkalarında Sunulan Destek Hizmetlerinin Yeni Kurulan Firmaların Hayatta Kalabilirliği Üzerine Etkisi: İş Geliştirme Merkezleri (İŞGEM) Örneği

Murat, Karaoz; Murat Ali, Dulupcu; Mesut, Albeni; … - 2012

services and results show that all service groups have significant and positive effects on firms’ survival probabilities. …

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A copula based joint multinomial discrete-hazard model of work arrangement choice and telecommuting duration

Bhat, Chandra R. (contributor) - 2009

Two important dimensions of work related choices are work location and working hours. Telecommuting (working from home or any convenient place instead of commuting to the conventional working place) can potentially have a substantial impact on traffic demand distribution on a particular day by...

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Individuals’ unemployment durations over the business cycle

Kalwij, A.S. - 2003

Using a large panel of administrative records on unemployment durations this study confirms the predictions of the ranking model of Blanchard and Diamond (1994) that an individual’s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases with labour market...

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ESSAYS ON INFORMATION ASYMMETRY IN THE U.S. RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE MARKET: INCENTIVES AND ESTIMATIONS

Cao, Menglin - 2005

This dissertation focuses on a phenomenon called appraisal bias in the residential mortgage market that stemmed from information asymmetry. It is composed of two essays, one theoretical and one empirical. The theoretical essay analyzes the existence of appraisal bias in a dynamic game of...

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Semiparametric approaches to inference in joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data

Song, Xiao - 2002

In many longitudinal studies, it is of interest to characterize the relationship between a time-to-event (e.g. survival … with error.For a single time-dependent covariate, a popular approach is to assume a joint longitudinal data-survival model …

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Entrepreneurship and family firms : a case study in growth and survival

Morris, Mervyn J. - 2009

Entrepreneurial marketing has gained popularity in both the entrepreneurship and marketing disciplines in recent times. The success of ventures that have pursued what are considered non-traditional marketing approaches has been attributed to entrepreneurial marketing practices. Despite the...

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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria

Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987

positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross … economic status, measured by income, and child survival (Anker and Knowles, 1980; Carvajal and Burgess, 1978; Farah and Preston …

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Using Auxiliary Time-Dependent Covariates to Recover Information in Nonparametric Testing with Censored Data

Murray, Susan; Tsiatis, Anastasios A. - 2001

Murrayand Tsiatis (1996) described a weighted survival estimate thatincorporates prognostic time-dependent covariate …, 1991) thatincorporates these weighted survival estimates. As in Pepe andFleming, the test is an integrated weighted … difference of twoestimated survival curves. This test has been shown to be effectiveat detecting survival differences in crossing …

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Sequential Methods for Comparing Years of Life Saved in the Two-Sample Censored Data Problem

Murray, Susan; Tsiatis, Anastasios A. - 1999

of life saved is of interest. The recommended test statistic looks at integrated differences in survival estimates during … operating characteristics regardless of the shapes of the survival curves being compared. This offers an advantage over the …

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