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Aid Effectiveness Reconsidered - Panel Data Evidence for the Education Sector -

Michaelowa, Katharina - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

Applying the general question of aid effectiveness to the sector of education, this paper reveals an overall positive effect of development assistance on primary enrolment. However, even the most optimistic estimates clearly show that at any realistic rate of growth, aid will never be able to...

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Long-Term Unemployment, Technical Progress and Capital Mobility in an Open Growth-Matching Model

Birk, Angela - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

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Spatial R&D Spillovers and Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2000

The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that emphasize the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...

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Are Reforms From a Centrally Planned to a Market System Bad for Health?

Suhrcke, Marc - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2000

Russia. Controlling for other determinants of health such as GDP growth and health provision, the hypothesis that reforms are … bad for health cannot be supported. Instead, good reforms do have a beneficial effect, quite independently of GDP growth … planned to a market system did have a detrimental effect on health during transition, as it has allegedly been the case in …

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Pitfalls of "Automatic" Donor Co-Ordination: The Malawi Experience 2000 - 2004

Krakowski, Michael - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

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Non-Linear Dynamics and Predictable Forecast Errors: An Application to the OECD Forecasts for Germany

Antzoulatos, Angelos A.; Wilfling, Bernd - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

identify economic variables that might help improve the OECD?s forecasts for Germany?s consumption and GDP growth. …

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Non-Linear Dynamics and Predictable Forecast Errors: An Application to the OECD Forecasts for Germany

Antzoulatos, Angelos A.; Wilfling, Bernd - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

identify economic variables that might help improve the OECD's forecasts for Germany's consumption and GDP growth. …

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Non-Linearities and Fractional Integration in the US Unemployment Rate

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

This paper proposes a model of the US unemployment rate which accounts for both its asymmetry and its long memory. Our approach, based on the tests of Robinson (1994), introduces fractional integration and nonlinearities simultaneously into the same framework (unlike earlier studies employing a...

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Taub, Bart - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

A firm monopsonistically hires labor from a pool containing both skilled and unskilled workers. The marginal value of a worker depends on the match between the job and the worker's skill level. Unskilled workers can have negative productivity if they are placed in a skilled job. The firm cannot...

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Integration and Labour Markets in European Border Regions

Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

Border regions are likely to play a critical role within the spatial dynamics initiated by the enlargement of the EU. This paper deals with the effects of integration on labour markets in border regions. Within the framework of different theoretical approaches, the effects of integration on...

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