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Recently gravity trade models are applied to disaggregated trade data. Here many zeros arecharacteristic. In the presence of excess zeros usual Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood(PPML) is still consistent, the variance covariance matrix however is invalid. Correcteconomic interpretation however...
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facilities to transfer money back to their family in Bangladesh. In June 2007, the company went into liquidation owing nearly 2 … million pounds to the public, the majority of whom were from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. …
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A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...
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This study compares the effects of economic internationalisation on the functional distribution of labour income in the U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general...
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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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This paper studies the relation between current intellectual capital disclosure (lCD), realized current earnings, and three years realized future earnings, in Sri Lanka ridden with a civil war. Examination of the top 30 listed firms in Colombo Stock Exchange from 1998 to 2003 shows that the...
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