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Do networks in the stock exchange industry pay off? European evidence

Hasan, Iftekhar; Schmiedel, Heiko - EconWPA - 2004

The economic theory of network externalities provides the rationale for this paper, which investigates whether adoption of network strategies in European stock exchanges creates additional value in the provision of trading services. Using unbalanced panel data from all major European exchanges...

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Racial Discrimination in the Brazilian Labour Market: Wage, Employment and Segregation Effects

Jean-Louis, Arcand; d'Hombres, Béatrice - EconWPA - 2005

The social science literature has done much to document pervasive racial discrimination in Brazil and there is little doubt that a very dark color is a handicap to social advancement. Nevertheless, very few empirical economic studies have attempted to quantify the impact of ethnic discrimination...

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Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education by Ethnic Group: Evidence from Northeastern Brazil

Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice - EconWPA - 2005

The purpose of this paper is to examine inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education for the three main ethnic groups in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS), Bahia state, in Northeastern Brazil. Our results suggest that sheepskin effects take the traditional form of an additional...

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DO LOWER EXPECTED WAGE BENEFITS EXPLAIN ETHNIC GAPS IN JOB- RELATED TRAINING? EVIDENCE FROM NEW ZEALAND

Gibson, John - EconWPA - 2003

Many studies show that individuals from ethnic minority groups receive low levels of job-related training, raising the question of whether lower expected wage benefits contribute to this lack of training. In this paper, unit record data are used to examine the effect of job- related training on...

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Playing on profits cycle?

Baryshevsky, Dmitry - EconWPA - 2003

, year-to-year change of earnings multiple P/E tends to anticorrelate with profits cycle. It shows sluggishness of market … trend. It is presence of phase of earnings accumulation. Such accumulation is possible only during periods of significant … outstripping of earnings growth over the market growth. Now there is no phase of earnings accumulation, because market returned to …

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Does firm size really affect earnings?

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony - EconWPA - 2004

firm size and earnings. To establish that such a question is of interest we need to show that the firm size-wage effect …

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Accounting for Agricultural Decline with Economic Growth in Taiwan

Sun, Ling; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Peterson, E. Wesley - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we propose an empirical model to decompose the evolution of the agricultural GDP share of Taiwan into …

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