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Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2002

This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...

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Reservation wages in Estonia

Rõõm, Marit - EconWPA - 2003

This paper analyses the factors determining reservation wages in Estonia, and estimates the influence of the reservation wage on unemployment duration. According to estimations there is no statistically significant effect of unemployment benefit and social assistance on the reservation wage in...

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Poverty and Inequality in Rural Assam An Indicative Study of Seven Villages in Udalguri Subdivision, Assam (India)

Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005

This study is based on primary data collected from randomly chosen 182 households inhabiting seven sample villages in the Udalguri subdivision, Assam (india). It indicates that at least 35.85 percent of the population (and 33.52 percent of households) in the sample villages is below poverty line...

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A Study on Structure of the Economy of Udalguri Sub-Division, Assam (India)

Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005

In this study we make an attempt to visualize the structure of the economy of Udalguri Subdivision of Assam, India. The structure of an economy comprises the characteristic features of and the interrelationships among its constituent parts and subsystems. These characteristic features and...

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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam

Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005

Globalization is a deliberate decision to open up a national economy to the forces of product, factor and money markets, followed by a sequence of requisite policies and actions. The Indian economy shed off its 40- year long license and quota regime and went in for globalization in the early...

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Growth and Shocks: evidence from rural Ethiopia

Dercon, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

Using panel data from villages in rural Ethiopia, the paper studies the determinants of consumption growth (1989-97), based on a microgrowth model, controlling for heterogeneity. Consumption grew substantially, but with diverse experiences across villages and individuals. A key focus is on...

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Poverty, Dietary Imbalance and Sickness among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)

Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005

The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. Casual labourers are those workers who work for a very short duration (for a few hours, a day or at most a few days under...

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Nutritional Aspects of Poverty among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)

Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we report our findings as to the extent of poverty among the casual labourers of Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and the second at the nutritional level. Nutritional level has...

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Enterprise, Growth and Inequality in the Rural Economy of Assam : A Study of Seven Villages in Udalguri Subdivision

Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005

villages are frugal. Lastly, there is a more acute inequality in income distribution in the Group-2 villages than in the Group …-1 villages. This inequality is the result of agricultural growth that has come to a few resourceful and enterprising … farmers in the Group-2 villages. Agricultural development often results into enhancement of inequality. It is not scale …

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Estimating Sampling Variance from the Current Population Survey: A Synthetic Design Approach to Correcting Standard Errors

Jolliffe, Dean - EconWPA - 2001

Essentially all empirical questions that are addressed with sample data require estimates of sampling variance. The econometrics and statistics literatures show that these estimates depend critically on the design of the sample. The sample for the U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS), which...

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