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Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex – Social Indicators Research, 2011
There is an ambiguity in Amartya Sen's capability approach as to what constitutes an individual's resources, conversion factors and valuable functionings. What we here call the "circularity problem" points to the fact that all three concepts seem to be mutually endogenous and interdependent. To econometrically account for this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Theories, Economics, Well Being
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Sousounis, Panos; Bladen-Hovell, Robin – Economics of Education Review, 2010
In this paper we investigate the role of workers' training history in determining current training-incidence. The analysis is conducted on an unbalanced sample comprising information on approximately 5000 employees from the first seven waves of the BHPS. Training participation is modelled as a dynamic random effects probit model where the effects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economics, Qualifications, Job Training