Limits and Alternatives to Multiple Regression in Comparative Research

Shalev, Michael

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“…In the social sciences, the scope for making comparisons based on controlled experiments is limited, and it was suggested that a "statistical" method is a promising alternative to establish the likelihood that the explanatory variables have effects on the dependent variable of interest (Lijphart, 1971(Lijphart, , 1975. Nonetheless, the statistical approaches for comparative analysis have been subject to some criticism (Shalev, 2007).…”

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Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Borg

2014

Housing, Theory and Society

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Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Borg

2014

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…Ragin 1987). Statistical techniques, such as time series cross-sectional analysis, have generally great difficulty to deal with this complexity as they are attuned to finding the model with the best fit (Ragin 2000;Braumoeller 2003: 211;Mahoney & Goertz 2006: 235-236;Shalev 2007; but see Clark, Gilligan & Golder 2006). An example is the linear fit in ordinary least square (OLS) regression, whereby cases far from the regression line are considered outliers.…”

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Politics of Risk-taking : Welfare State Reform in Advanced Democracies

Vis¹

2010

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“…In fact, Shalev (2007) argues that by keeping the cases visible the researcher is directly catering to the needs of CPE researchers.…”

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Vicious and Virtuous Cycles of Female Labour Force Participation in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe

Avlijaš

2016

SSRN Journal

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Female labour force participation (hereinafter FLFP) trends across Eastern Europe, which were very high during communism, started to diverge substantially following its collapse. Women did not appear to benefit from the changing labour market conditions in those transition countries that pursued industrial upgrading as their strategy of economic development. On the other hand, in some small transition economies, most notably the Baltic countries, women benefited substantially from increased employment opportunities in the knowledgeintensive public and private sector services. This article seeks to explain the observed variation in FLFP rates across the region by synthesising insights from macroeconomic and comparative political economy literature. It identifies four key relationships between industrial upgrading, educational expansion and the expansion of knowledge-intensive services and examines how these factors interacted and translated into specific FLFP outcomes. The article suggests that industrial upgrading, driven by foreign direct investment, created a vicious cycle for FLFP. First of all, the upgrading led to a defeminisation of manufacturing because female labour-intensive sectors were not upgraded. Furthermore, the upgrading absorbed the budgetary resources that could have been used for educational reform and general skills formation. This lack of educational reform impeded the development of knowledge-intensive services, which would have been more conducive to the generation of female employment. The virtuous cycle of FLFP, on the other hand, occurred in those Eastern European countries that turned to reforming their educational sector towards general skills and expansion of tertiary education, with the aim of transforming themselves into knowledge economies. Such a transformation required an active social investment oriented state and an expansion of knowledge-intensive public and private sector employment. This development path created a positive causal loop for FLFP. I test these propositions quantitatively on a sample of 13 Eastern European countries.

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Limits and Alternatives to Multiple Regression in Comparative Research

Cited by 173 publications

References 53 publications

Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Politics of Risk-taking : Welfare State Reform in Advanced Democracies

Vicious and Virtuous Cycles of Female Labour Force Participation in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe

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