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their possible interrelations. The estimation of models with both continuous and categorical, in most cases binary, outcomes has in recent years attracted increasing interest in various areas of research. Since [...] analyses of the M = 10 imputed data sets (Little and Rubin, 2002, see also Li et al., 1991). In the case of the variables economic sector and occupational qualification, the corresponding test is a test [...] effect of job tenure on log(income) is contrary to its effect on perceived job security. In the former case, job tenure 25 has a positive although decreasing effect, whereas its effect on perceived job se-
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the hosting country affect remittances negatively in models based on altruism and positively in the case of those focusing on investment motives; other variables as for example income are considered to have [...] to the group of foreigners (column b) reveals that all these variables have the same sign as in the case of migrants, however, many of them are now not longer significant. According to our results, remittances [...] lowest two income categories remit significantly less than those in the highest income category. In the case of foreigners only people belonging to lowest income category remit significantly less than those
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statistics, including frequency counts which are displayed in bar diagrams. Because of the low number of cases no further analyses was possible. First of all, the frequency counts provide information about personal [...] Filipino, Polish, Georgian, Iranian, Bulgarian, and Vietnamese) were chosen by one respondent in each case. A continuing enlargement and increasing internationalization of the study program can be observed [...] of Flensburg can be observed. Fig. 5c: Information Source, 3rd Cohort n = 37 a = 42 n = Number of cases a = Number of answers (more than one answer possible) Overall, the relevance of the DAAD as a source
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corroborated nicely with a whole array of similar works over the past three decades, showing in many cases a positive relationship between inequality and mortality, the presented evidence was not without critics [...] with sufficient similarities. The second pertains to the deplorable situation, that in the German case direct regional inequality data are not available. The third addresses slightly different measures [...] German Socio-Economic Panel11 with now more than 20,000 persons interviewed, does not yield enough cases when broken down into regions. Instead of a then rather unreliable Gini coefficient, the regional
fileadmin/content/institute/iim/dokumente/forschung/discussion-papers/18-sm-rda-gretzinger2008-gesamt.pdf
An organization can have a monopoly position legally protected or legally established, as in the case of electric and telephone utilities. Or, a group of firms can act together as one, constituting a
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on objective factors (income, labour force status, marital status, education, health) and, in many cases, have convincingly demonstrated associations and, causal connections. Investigations considering [...] FE following entropy balancing, and System GMM.2 For comparability, the same sample is used in each case. In practice this means that the person-year observations used in the System GMM estimation (which [...] enjoy more life satisfaction now than individuals who are pessimistic about the future.7 In both cases (OLS and FE) – and all six estimates – the variation of explained life 6 There is evidence that this
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imitation thereby enhancing innovation. However, from a consumer’s perspective the opposite might be the case: it is conceivable that better enforced IPP can raise the cost of common purchases, like those for [...] high income countries as compared to middle and low income countries. (And the effect is stronger in case of upper middle income countries as compared to lower middle income and low income countries). In
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successfully address the initial conditions concern. 9 influence is conditional on this history; in this case, any impact of (the independent variables) xit represents the effect of new information. (2008, p [...] instruments used which, for most variables, give qualitatively the same outcome (not shown). In the male case, the diagnostic tests are all supportive of the estimation choices made. Second order autocorrelation [...] estimation: the null hypothesis of exogenous instruments is supported (i.e. not rejected) in each case. Here, again, only marital status was treated as potentially endogenous. The final column treats health
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Volpe, 1998), it is likely that income is an essential influence on financial literacy. If this is the case, this information will incentivize the need for effective measures to improve financially literacy
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given the wide usage of consumer surplus-based calculations in the practical world. In case A – a tax and subsidy case – the following situation is given. In a country, there are apple farmers with the demand [...] been accounted for (see Appendix), based on the two case examples, the following results of welfare change based on those methods are (in the cases of CL and CP- welfare gain means reduction of the negatively [...] requirements of a consumer surplus argumentation, alternative constructions are possible. In two relevant cases, it will be shown that those alternatives yield opposite outcomes, making the usage of consumer surplus