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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556799
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Apparent Solow- and Solow-like Technological Residuals and the Economic Performance of U.S. Native American Economies
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2004
This paper decomposes the large regression residuals of income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs) into … correlation between income and Solow residuals, and a strong correlation between income and Solow-like residuals, especially those … associated with human capital and external technology. It also finds that technological residuals are skewed towards high income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118791
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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
.S. reservation economies to assess how the two aspects affect income. The results show that resources and resource productivity are … necessary but insufficient determinants of income in reservation economies. A key constraint is human capital; human capital is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125631
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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004
superstructural effects of institutions on aggregate and average income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs). It finds … necessary but insufficient determinants of income for institutional reasons. Because of the apparent scarcity of physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125690
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Population ageing, labour markets and the outlook for public finances
Kinnunen, Helvi - EconWPA - 2004
Keeping public finances on a sustainable foundation while the population ages is clearly a problem in Finland, as in many other western countries. The shrinking of the working-age population, ageing of the labour force, and growth in the number of very old persons form a difficult combination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412491
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"Optimum Population -- A New Look: A Hamiltonian Approach Towards A Dynamic Analysis"
Bokhari, Farasat; McCarthy, George W. - EconWPA - 1996
and net consumption. This is done using a neoclassical economic growth model using capital stock, net national income and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125782
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Does Commuting Reduce Wage Disparities?
Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005
This paper shows that in the Baltic countries, commuting reduces urban- rural wage and employment disparities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076527
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556022
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The Nature of Unemployment in Urban Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004
With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of incidence and duration and find that most variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556068
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556209