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SINGAPORE'S BEVERIDGE CURVE : A Comparative Study of the Unemployment and Vacancy Relationship for Selected East Asian Countries

Teo, Edward; Thangavelu, Shandre M.; Quah, Elizabeth - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

This paper explores the relationship between unemployment (U) and job vacancies (V) in the Singapore labour market. Empirical analysis using the framework of the UV Curve (also known as the Beveridge Curve) indicates that Singapores labour market appears to have improved in its matching...

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Keeping Dictators Honest : the Role of Population Concentration

Doy, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes, economists and political scientists have focused mostly on institutions acting as de facto checks and balances. In this paper, we propose that population plays a similar role in...

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Combed Cotton Yarn Exports of Pakistan to the US : A Dispute Settlement Case

Hussain, S. M. Turab - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

this paper essentially revisits the issue of policy and its effect on rural to urban migration under an extended family … extended families. The extended family in this paper consists of two households, the rural-origin and its urban … flowing from the migrants to the family members left behind. All decisions, migration and remittance, are based on altruism …

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Rural to Urban Migration in Pakistan : The Gender Perspective

Hamid, Shahnaz - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

migration increased but there seems to be an increasing trend in family migration to cities. This seems to be due to the changes …

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A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration : Axiomatic Approach with an Application to Population and Capital Cities

Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to political economy and industrial organization. We propose basic axioms (decomposability and...

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Understanding Wage Inequality - Trade, Technology, and Location

Chung, Chul; Kim, Bonggeun - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper investigates the trend of the wage inequality and the metropolitan wage premium in the United States during the 1980s. Two distinct sets of literature documented that the wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers and the metropolitan wage premium have risen significantly...

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Children and Household Savings in the Philippines

Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between household savings and family size. Household savings are important … indicators for family welfare not only in terms of its investment and income generation prospects but also, and perhaps more … shortfalls. Descriptive and multivariate evidence on the relationship of household savings and family size are provided. The …

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On Measuring the Complexity of Urban Living

Hasan, Lubna - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

This paper explores the concept of city ranking as a way to measure the dynamics and complexities of urban life. These rankings have various dimensions and uses. Both the context in which these rankings are done and their nature have changed considerably over time. These rankings face many...

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Rural to Urban Migration and Network Effects in an Extended Family Framework

Hussain, S.M. Turab - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

it is shown that when the decision making unit is the extended family and there is a minimum wage induced Harris … extended family framework with urban equilibrium unemployment in the model. A larger stock of previous migrants at the urban … migrants to their rural counterparts - the two households comprising the extended family. The increased remittance income …

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The Socioeconomic and Health Status of Ruralââ‚¬â€œUrban Migrants in Indonesia

Resosudarmo, Budy P.; Suryahadi, Asep; Purnagunawan, Raden - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

This paper seeks to answer whether or not ruralurban migrants make it, i.e. whether or not they are able to, at least, achieve a socioeconomic and health status similar to that of their nonmigrant counterparts living in the same city. Using specifically collected data on rural urban migration,...

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