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El Geomarketing y la distribución comercial

Chasco-Yrigoyen, Coro - EconWPA - 2004

statistics.This is geomarketing, a new big Tool which solves some critical retailing location problems, which are often …

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A Residential Energy Demand System for Spain

Labandeira, Xavier; Labeaga, José M.; Rodríguez, Miguel - EconWPA - 2005

Sharp price fluctuations and increasing environmental and distributional concerns, among other issues, have led to a renewed academic interest in energy demand. In this paper we estimate, for the first time in Spain, an energy demand system with household microdata. In doing so, we tackle...

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The medium and long term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d<92>Ivoire A dynamic microsimulation study

Grimm, Michael - EconWPA - 2004

I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d'Ivoire in the medium and long term. The simulations are performed in order to replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in this country. Various hypotheses...

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Technological Developments and their Effects on World Trade: Any Implications for Governments?

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2001

within an increasingly globalizing world economy. …

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Redistributing Educational Attainment: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment in India

Roy, Joydeep - EconWPA - 2004

In 1983 the ruling communists in the Indian state of West Bengal, with the avowed objective of making education more accessible, abolished the teaching of English at the primary level from public schools. I argue that the abolition can be looked upon as a lowering of academic standards, and that...

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A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in reunified Germany

Falko, Juessen - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents an empirical study of GDP per worker (and per capita) convergence across German labour market regions during 1992 to 2002 using nonparametric techniques. There is evidence for a tendency towards convergence during the observed period, i.e. regions that were less productive in...

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Regional Productivity Differentials in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic

Sandy Dall’erba; Kamarianaki, Yiannis; Gallo, Julie Le; … - EconWPA - 2003

This paper starts by describing the distribution of GVA, employment and productivity growth across the regions of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Next, we investigate in what extent regional per capita income gaps to the European average can be attributed to differences in productivity...

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EU Regional and Cohesion Policy and Economic Integration of the Accession Countries

Bergs, Rolf - EconWPA - 2002

The paper deals with specific issues concerning the relationship between regional development strategies and EU integration of the Central and Eastern European Accession Countries (CEECs). In this context the possible role of pre-accession regional development aid and the future interventions by...

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Labor Market Conditions, Political Events and Palestinian Suicide Bombings

Sayre, Edward A. - EconWPA - 2005

conditions from 1993 to 2001. Labor market conditions could affect the number of terror attacks because when the economy worsens …

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A Simple Model of Keynesian Unemployment

Nakajima, Tetsuya - EconWPA - 2005

equities, we examine equilibrium unemployment. While a mechanism of an efficiency wage brings about nominal wage rigidity …, unemployment occurring in our model definitely has Keynesian features. For instance, a reduction in wages rather enhances … unemployment through a decrease in consumption. In addition, our paper shows a possibility of Pareto improvement through an …

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