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Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper shows that in the Baltic countries, commuting reduces urban- rural wage and employment disparities and increases national output. To quantify the effect of commuting on wage differentials, two sets of earnings functions are estimated (based on Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Labor...

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Movements Into and Out of Child Poverty in New Zealand: Results from the Linked Income Supplement

Ballantyne, Suzie; Chapple, Simon; Maré, David C.; … - EconWPA - 2004

This paper considers the dynamics of child income poverty in New Zealand. Annual movements into and out of poverty by children’s households in New Zealand over the 1997/98, 1998/99, and 1999/2000 periods are analysed. The annual Income Supplement to the Household Labour Force Survey allows...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134624

Agro-Ecological Zones and their Impact on Farm Production and Farm Organization after Privatization in Azerbaijan.

Alibejov, Nemet; Krische, Stephan; Wesseler, Justus - EconWPA - 2001

The privatization of agriculture in Azerbaijan started in the mid 1990s, while the pace of privatization in the country differs. Some Rayons have privatized almost all of the former state-owned agricultural land while others hold a wait and see strategy. The agricultural administration observes...

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Modelos de regresión espacio temporales en la estimación de la renta municipal. Estimación de la renta en los municipios de la Región de Murcia.

Chasco-Yrigoyen, Coro; López-Hernández, Fernando - EconWPA - 2004

Recently municipal household income has been estimated with spatial econometrics techniques explicitly including spatial autocorrelation in the econometric models. Spatial econometric tools have highly improved the explicative and predictive capacity of the models and more effort must be done in...

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Is the Euro Working? The Euro and European Labour Markets

Silvia, Stephen - EconWPA - 2005

Now that four years have passed since the introduction of the euro as a commercial currency, it has become possible to assess many arguments made in the abstract during the 1990s about the implications of monetary union. This contribution does precisely that. In brief, the euro zone still falls...

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College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women

Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996

have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …

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College Quality and the Wages of Young Men

Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996

have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative …

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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …

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The role of technology in determining skilled employment: an economywide approach

Laplagne, Patrick; Marshall, Peter; Stone, Susan - EconWPA - 2001

This paper compares the role of technological change with that of trade in explaining the increased demand for skilled workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is consistent across industries, including those...

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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs

RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005

This paper aims at analysing the relation between competitiveness and economic growth for the period 1995-2000 (2002 for some variables). To this aim we analyse the evolution of the unit labour cost by sector (‘traded’ and ‘non-traded’ sector) and decomposition between the unit labour...

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