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Strategic Interactions of Monetary Policymakers and Wage/Price Bargainers: A Review with Implications for the European Common-Currency Area
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-12)
This paper reviews recent work on macroeconomic management with varying organization of wage/price bargaining and degrees of credible monetary conservatism. The emerging literature synthesizes and extends theory and empirics ...
Neighborhood Social Change and Perceptions of Environmental Degradation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
This paper investigates how changes in neighborhood facilities—new schools, health posts, bus services, mills, dairies, agricultural cooperatives, and other facilities—influence perceptions of environmental degradation. ...
Environment, Access to Health Care, and Other Factors Affecting Infant and Child Survival Among the African and Coloured Populations of South Africa, 1989–94
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-03)
Some maintain that environmental factors are unimportant for infant and child survival once mother's education and other characteristics have been taken into account. However, an analysis of survival of African and Coloured ...
A Profile Conditional Likelihood Approach for the Semiparametric Transformation Regression Model with Missing Covariates
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-09)
We propose a profile conditional likelihood approach to handle missing covariates in the general semiparametric transformation regression model. The method estimates the marginal survival function by the Kaplan-Meier ...
Wealth dynamics: reducing noise in panel data
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006-09)
Although the asset data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is of very high quality, there is sufficient noise to frustrate attempts to study saving behaviour by examining wave-to-wave change in wealth. In this ...
Russia Faces Depopulation? Dynamics of Population Decline
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-05)
Between 1992 and 1993 Russia's population declined, as it has in every succeeding year. This has been viewed as a population disaster, related to high adult male mortality and deterioration of the health care system. Some ...
Surface modification of neural recording electrodes with conducting polymer/biomolecule blends
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001-08)
The interface between micromachined neural microelectrodes and neural tissue plays an important role in chronic in vivo recording. Electrochemical polymerization was used to optimize the surface of the metal electrode ...
Editor's Introduction: Unforeseen Consequences of Policy Decisions
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-03)
On weighting the rates in non-response weights
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2003-05-15)
A basic estimation strategy in sample surveys is to weight units inversely proportional to the probability of selection and response. Response weights in this method are usually estimated by the inverse of the sample-weighted ...
Self Organization and Coordination
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-08)
In this paper, I analyze the organization of tasks or activities by acollection of agents. I begin by formally defining organized collections androbustly organized collections of agents in the context of a simple model.Within ...