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Der Einzelhandel in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland leidet seit 1992 unter der schwachen Konjunktur und insgesamt geringen Reallohnverlusten und jetzt zusätzlich noch unter der Einführung des Euro. Wie das Statistische Bundesamt mitteilte, liegt der Umsatztrend für die ersten vier Monate des...
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This study develops a model of a person's day activity schedule that can be used to forecast urban travel demand. It is motivated by the notion that travel outcomes are part of an activity scheduling decision, and uses discrete choice models to address the basic modeling problem-capturing...
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markets are not bound by county lines, commuting and migration are important factors to consider when measuring employment …, in-commuting, and out-commuting. The model was estimated using Ordinary Least Squares regression and was simulated to … predict changes in labor force, unemployment and commuting as a result of a change in employment for all 105 Kansas counties …
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, namely commuting. This leads to us to construct a new indicator which we call social productivity. Our conclusion is that our …
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work place retaining their place of residence, i.e. commute. Introduction of commuting possibility into the model produces … possible commuting destinations is bounded and the maximum distance a worker is willing to commute is determined by exogenous … region within a maximal acceptable commuting distance thereby substantiating the use of "hurdle" models for empirical …
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To what extent is the performance of a small business venture, once started, affected by capital constraints at the time of inception and by the business founder's investment in human capital? We attempt to answer this question taking into account the potential endogeneity of human and financial...
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In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in ‘human capital’ and the estimation of the rate of return to that private investment. While the literature is replete with studies that estimate the rate of return using regression methods where the estimated return is...
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Wage and income surveys covering the period 1989-1999 are used to display changes in inequality of earnings and main factors of disparities. In the first part, increasing differences in the Czech Republic and the decreasing weight of demographic characteristics in wage structure are observed. In...
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This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing households from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and...
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This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm pro duction in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing hous eholds from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442512