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Regression Analysis and Time Use Data A Comparison of Microeconometric Approaches with Data from the Swedish Time Use Survey (HUS)
(1998)
This study focuses on a comparison and evaluation of models and estimators appropriate for time-use data. The tobit type I as well as different generalizations are used. According to our findings, a simple tobit I method ...
ASSESSING THE EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING USING A ONE-FACTOR MODEL
(2004)
Matching estimators use observed variables to adjust for differences between groups to eliminate sample selection bias. When minimum relevant information is not available, matching estimates are biased. If access to data ...
Economic Determinants of Public Opinion. About Joining the EMU: The Case of Sweden
(2002)
A potential Swedish membership in the third stage of the EMU (the
currency union) will be determined in a referendum. The opinion
polls preceding this referendum show strong variability in the Swedish
public opinion ...
Natural Resource use Conflict: Gold Mining in Tropical Rainforest in Ghana
(2005)
Gold is frequently mined in rainforests that can provide either gold or forest benefits, but not both. This conflict in resource use occurs in Ghana, a developing country in the tropics where the capital needed for mining ...
Do Experience and Cheap Talk influence Willingness to Pay in an Open-Ended Contingent Valuation Survey?
(2006)
In this paper we analyze the effect of information on respondents’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages in Sweden, by employing an open-ended contingent valuation survey. Two aspects of information are tested; (i) if ...
Scandinavia, Economics in
(2006)
Scandinavia includes in a narrow sense Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which have similar languages and have strongly influenced one another.
Nevertheless, it is possible to distinguish different histories of learning. Danish ...
WHY ARE THE SICKNESS ABSENCES SO LONG IN SWEDEN
(2004)
Using a sample of 2,789 Swedish residents on working age, this paper analyzes long-term absences from work due to sickness. The database
contains all compensated sickness spells in the period January 1986 to December 1991. ...
Efficiency, Technical Progress, and Best Practice in Chinese State Enterprises (1980-1994)
(2000)
In spite of rapid economic growth and swift structural change during the last two decades, China's industrial reform is far from complete, especially with regard to state enterprises (SOEs). Although troubled with huge ...
Four Essays on Technology, Productivity and Environment
(2006)
The main subject of this thesis is the relationship between economic growth and environmental effects when the interaction between firms' behaviour and regulations are taken into account. In the first three papers I discuss ...
Price Bundling Theory Applied to Retail Banking
(1999)
The current report presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of a pricing method called price bundling and its application in retail banking in Sweden and Finland.
Price bundling was found to be an appropriate ...