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Gender Equality in Central and Eastern Europe : A Comparison of Labour Market Attitudes, Educational Achievement and Poverty between East and West
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2005
tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the …’s economic empowerment: the labour market, education and poverty. Large and complex data sets on peoples’ attitudes and … compared to economic indicators generally used for the estimation of women’s disadvantage. The application of these new data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449678
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Dispersion Patterns and Sampling Plans for Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) in Citrus.
Setamou, Mamoudou; Flores, Daniel; French, J. Victor; … - 2008
presence-absence sampling plan with a fixed precision level was developed and can be used to provide a quick estimation of D …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429531
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Approximate Maximum-Likelihood Estimation Of Circle Parameters Using A Phase-Coded Kernel
Zelniker, Emanuel; Clarkson, Ian Vaughan L. - 2004
The accurate fitting of a circle to noisy measurements of points on its circumference is an important and much-studied problem in statistics. Atherton & Kerbyson (Image and Vision Computing 17, 1999, 795-803) have proposed a complex convolutional circle parameter estimator. One of the estimators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448050
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Folded Variance Estimators for Stationary Time Series
Antonini, Claudia - 2005
This thesis is concerned with simulation output analysis. In particular, we are inter-ested in estimating the variance parameter of a steady-state output process. The estimationof the variance parameter has immediate applications in problems involving (i) the precisionof the sample mean as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476105
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DYNAMIC PANEL DATA MODELS WITH SPATIALLY CORRELATED DISTURBANCES
Mutl, Jan - 2006
components. The model for spatial dependence is a Cliff-Ord type model. We introduce a three step estimation procedure and give … a small Monte Carlo study to illustrate the small sample performance of the proposed estimation procedure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450825
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Impacts of Population and Income Growth Rates on Threatened Mammals and Birds
Pandit, Ram; Laband, David - 2011
Per capita income and human population levels in a country have direct influences on itsenvironmental outcomes. Countries with same level of income may have different rate ofincome growth and vice versa, suggesting that the influence of the rate of income growth onenvironmental outcomes could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443801
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Economic Partnership Agreements and WTO negotiations. A quantitative assessment of trade preference granting and erosion in the banana market
Anania, Giovanni - 2008
Paper replaced 07/29/09.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445735
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Assessing the Impact of Recent Trade Policy Changes in the Banana Market under Alternative Market Structures
Anania, Giovanni; Scoppola, Margherita - 2010
The paper focuses on the importance of the assumptions made about market structure andfirm behaviors in empirical trade policy analysis. It addresses this issue with reference torecent changes in the EU import regime for bananas, namely the Economic PartnershipAgreements and the December 2009...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483596
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Network effects, compatibility, and adoption of standards
Grajek, Michał - 2005
standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467122