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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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Migration and Regional Disparities: the Role of Skill Biased Flows

Fratesi, Ugo; Riggi, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2004

The persistence of disparities is one of the most striking features of regional development. We argue that movements of labour force, instead of being an always equilibrating mechanism, can also make persistent or even reinforce such inequalities. The most advanced regions are in fact generally...

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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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Macroeconomic Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Host vs. Home Country’s Economic Conditions

Vargas-Silva, Carlos; Huang, Peng - EconWPA - 2005

This study examines the determinants of worker’s remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and … Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the … Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico and the U.S. are used. The results indicate that remittances respond more to changes in …

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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Genericity analysis of split bifurcations

Kung, Fan-chin - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyzes the genericity of bifurcations of one-parameter families of smooth (C1) vector fields that are embedded in an underlying multi-dimensional parameter space. Bifurcations with crossing equilibrium loci are called 'split bifurcations.' They include, for example, the pitchfork...

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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...

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Job flows, worker flows and mismatching in Veneto manufacturing. 1982-1996

Tattara, Giuseppe; Valentini, Marco - EconWPA - 2005

This research exploits a large employer-level panel dataset in order to analyse employment and worker flows for all establishments in a highly industrialized region in the North- East of Italy, the Veneto. Our results have relevance for models of job creation, job destruction and labour excess...

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Subsidios de Educación: Impacto en la Migración y Convergencia Regional.

Duran, Gonzalo - EconWPA - 2005

: During the last couple of decades, the migratory movements in Chile have been minimum, regions are far from achieving match in the per capíta income, situation that would give persistence to the regional inequity. According to studies, in 52 years, half of the gap between a rich and a poor...

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Explaining Non-Negative Duration Dependence Among the Unemployed

Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour...

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