Economic Explanation, Ordinality and the Adequacy of Analytic Specification

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This paper examines the implicit links between models containing ordinal variables and their underlying unquantified counterparts that are necessary to make the former viable theoretical constructions. It is argued that when the underlying unquantified structure is unknown, the permissible transformations of scale applicable to the ordinal variables have to be restricted beyond that which is permitted by dint of the ordinality itself. The possibility of an underlying structure being known but unspecified is also considered. In the case of the efficiency wage model, the only usable transformations of the ordinal effort scale are those which are multiples of each other.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2004-02

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Ordinal variable ; unquantified variable ; effort ; efficiency wage theory

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Katzner, Donald W. ; Skott, Peter
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics
• (wo): Amherst, MA
• (wann): 2004

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/105729
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ