Economics and information theory

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic discussion of the concept of the quality of municipal services, based upon the argument that service quality is a subjective and collective experience of the citizenry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of nonproductivity-related discriminatory factors (like personal characteristics, social norms and policies), compared with productivity-related returns on human capital.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a data base of inequality indices for the fifty provinces of Spain on the basis of the Household Budget Surveys (Encuestas de Presupuestos Familiares, EPFs) for the years 1973/74, 1980/81 and 1990/91.

TL;DR: In this article, a generalization of the common logistic function was developed, incorporating a nonunit saturation level, a nonzero intercept, and a non-symmetric shape, and the dependence of the three generalized characteristics on (estimated) parameter values was exhibited.