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Maquiladoras and Standard of Living in Mexico Before and After NAFTA
Huato, Julio - EconWPA - 2005
This study assesses the impact across states of for-export, mostly foreign-owned manufacturing plants (commonly known as 'maquiladoras') on various measures of standard of living in Mexico, namely literacy rate, school attendance rates, housing characteristics, life expectancy, infant mortality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555993
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Una misurazione del benessere nelle regioni italiane
Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004
La limitazione del benessere ai soli aspetti reddituali ignora numerose dimensioni e condizioni fondamentali per il realizzarsi delle potenzialità individuali. Obiettivo dell’articolo è quello di fornire una misura multidimensionale di benessere per le Regioni italiane, che superi la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125921
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Movements Into and Out of Child Poverty in New Zealand: Results from the Linked Income Supplement
Ballantyne, Suzie; Chapple, Simon; Maré, David C.; … - EconWPA - 2004
This paper considers the dynamics of child income poverty in New Zealand. Annual movements into and out of poverty by … Supplement to the Household Labour Force Survey allows tracking of dwellings and people in two consecutive June quarterly weeks …, and thus allows observation of changes in equivalised household disposable income over a June year. This project is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134624
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Agro-Ecological Zones and their Impact on Farm Production and Farm Organization after Privatization in Azerbaijan.
Alibejov, Nemet; Krische, Stephan; Wesseler, Justus - EconWPA - 2001
farm household survey conducted during the first six month of the year 2000 in Sagatalla Rayon. The results show the Rayon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407696
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Modelos de regresión espacio temporales en la estimación de la renta municipal. Estimación de la renta en los municipios de la Región de Murcia.
Chasco-Yrigoyen, Coro; López-Hernández, Fernando - EconWPA - 2004
Recently municipal household income has been estimated with spatial econometrics techniques explicitly including … alternative way to estimate household income in small areas with a space-time model, which both correct spatial effects and … estimation of municipal household income in the Region of Murcia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556266
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China and the Geopolitics of Oil in the Asian Pacific Region
Bustelo, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005
China’s growing demand for oil is significantly changing the international geopolitics of energy, especially in the Asian Pacific region. The recent growth in oil consumption, combined with forecasts of increased oil imports (especially from the Middle East), have led to deep concern among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118931
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Review of the Gas Access Regime
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
The Commission was asked to review the National Third Party Access Regime for Natural Gas Pipelines. The review sought to assess the benefits and costs of the Regime, including its effects on investment. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561783
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Instrument Choice and the Returns to Education: New Evidence from Vietnam
Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice; Gyselinck, Paul - EconWPA - 2005
This paper focuses on instrument choice while consistently estimating the returns to education in Vietnam. Using data … culled from the 2 rounds of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey (VLSS), we explore different sets of exogenous instruments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076522
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Governance Institutions and Incentive Structures in Vietnam
McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001
paper then surveys the particular governance challenge in Vietnam as it continues its transition from central planning to … markets. The nature and characteristics of the present administrative structure in Vietnam are then surveyed, followed by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125943
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Report and Statistical Abstract of UNIDO/DSI Industrial Competitiveness Field Survey
McCarty, Adam; Fink, Sasha; Anh, Nguyen Le - EconWPA - 2001
generally low, but in a labour intensive country such as Vietnam could still be seen as an advantage. Employment levels were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134443