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Poland, Michelle; Maré, David C - EconWPA - 2005

The purpose of this paper is to provide a guide to concepts, ideas, and measurements of geographic communities. The … paper investigates the various concepts of geographic communities found in the literature and reviews existing studies to … determine how researchers measure geographic communities in practice. …

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Moving to Jobs?

Maré, Dave; Timmins, Jason - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines whether New Zealand residents move from low-growth to high-growth regions, using New Zealand census data from the past three inter-censal periods (covering 1986-2001). We focus on the relationship between employment growth and migration flows to gauge the strength of the...

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The Geographical Mobility of Mâori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - EconWPA - 2005

This paper describes the geographical location and internal mobility of the Mâori ethnic group in New Zealand between 1991 and 2001. It is often suggested that Mâori are less mobile than other ethnic groups because of attachment to particular geographical locations. We compare the mobility of...

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New Zealand: A Typical Australasian Economy?

Grimes, Arthur - EconWPA - 2005

We examine trend economic developments in New Zealand and in each of Australia’s six states and two territories (i.e. nine regions) in order to inform issues regarding economic policy harmonisation across Australasia. Our focus is on trend developments in GDP, population, GDP per capita and...

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Regional business cycles in New Zealand:Do they exist? What might drive them?

Hall, Viv B; McDermott, C. John - EconWPA - 2005

We use National Bank of New Zealand Regional Economic Activity data, to identify and characterise classical business cycle turning points, for New Zealand’s 14 regions and aggregate New Zealand activity. Using Concordance statistic measures, logistic model and GMM estimation methods,...

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Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia?

Kaufmann, Daniel; Mastruzzi, Massimo; Zavaleta, Diego - EconWPA - 2003

We are increasingly cognizant of the limits to large cross-country empirical studies in trying to understand in-depth a particular country reality, in ways useful for advice. At the same time, merely relying on a single country account at a particular point in time ignores the historical and...

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Employment in Poland 2005

Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005

This publication is a non-technical report prepared for Polish Ministry of Economy and Labor. The main goal is to present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the period 1998-2004 and confront Polish experiences with...

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Migration, Labor Market Flexibility, and Wage Determination in China: A Review

Zhao, Zhong - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reviews economic studies on rural-urban migration issues in China. The paper focuses on four issues: the household registration system in China, the proﬁle of the migrants, explanations for rural-to-urban migration, and the interaction between migration and labor market evolution,...

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A stock-flow matching approach to evaluation of public training program in a high unemployment environment

Dmitrijeva, Jekaterina; Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

Monthly panel (1998-2003) data from regional labor offices in Latvia are used to analyze the matching process in a high unemployment – low labor demand environment and to evaluate the impact of active labor market policy programs on outflows from unemployment. Results suggest that the hiring...

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A tax-based incomes policy that removes sectoral labour market imbalances

Hare, Ian P. - EconWPA - 2003

A modified version of a tax-based incomes policy (TIP) incentive tax is proposed that retains the aggregate wage-restraining effect of the tax proposed by Jackman and Layard, but in addition should help to speed the elimination of unemployment that results from the slow response of relative...

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