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Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster - enters the...
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speculative attacks. Others on the contrary, assert the merits of the rigid fixed exchange regimes. The adoption by Tunisia of … world economy. So the total liberalization of the exchange in Tunisia poses the problematic of the prospective choice of its …
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of a Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area (FTA). Among the first participants in the constitution of this zone, is Tunisia …, which signed an agreement of association with the European Union (EU). Since the signature of this agreement, Tunisia has … is to compare the effects of the free total exchange and the effects of the free industrial exchange between Tunisia and …
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When market structure is complete, factor demands by households will be independent of their characteristics, and households will take their production decisions as if they were profit-maximizing firms. This observation constitutes the basis for one of the most popular empirical tests for...
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-firm data in 1999. This tells us how returns to human capital in a Less Developed Country like Tunisia differ from the …
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This paper shows the characteristics of the macroeconomic Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of Tunisia in 1996. It is … corresponding to Tunisia during 1996. This study is made up of two sections. In the first section, we will present the construction … of the unbalanced Macroeconomic Social Accounting Matrix (SAMmac) of Tunisia in 1996. This section includes three sub …
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Morocco and Tunisia have started to open their markets to international trade and capital flows in order to bolster … their exchange rate regimes and monetary policies. This objective of this paper is to examine why Morocco and Tunisia should … probabilities is estimated for Morocco and Tunisia to provide important information concerning the mechanisms underlying inflation …
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Time-consuming and costly religious rituals pose a puzzle for economists committed to rational choice theories of human behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective-action problems. We test this hypothesis on communal...
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The in-group-out-group bias is among the most well documented and widely observed phenomenon in the social sciences. Despite its role in hiring decisions and job discrimination, negotiations, and conflict and competition between groups, economists have heretofore ignored the in- group-out-group...
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experiment. We find that, on the one hand, the access differences to job interviews by women and men are primarily explained by …
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