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Why Some Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region
Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes the exporting behaviour of manufacturing firms located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Database. It specifically examines the factors that determine the probability of exporting and the export intensity of...
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Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates
Conniffe, Denis; O'Neill, Donal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. We derive a new probit type estimator for models with missing covariate data where the dependent variable is binary. For the benchmark case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703303
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Ostdeutschland 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall: Was war und was ist heute mit der Wirtschaft?
Brenke, Karl; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Der Artikel zeigt in den grundlegenden Zügen die Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland seit dem Beginn der Umstrukturierung auf und zieht eine Bilanz zum Stand des Anpassungsprozesses 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall. Wie sich an der Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsleistung zeigen lässt, ist der wirtschaftliche...
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Intergenerational Transmission of Healthy Eating Behaviour and the Role of Household Income
Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Smith, Murray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...
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The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...
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The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket...
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Scraping By: Income and Program Participation After the Loss of Extended Unemployment Benefits
Rothstein, Jesse; Valletta, Robert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007-09 and its aftermath, large numbers of recipients exhausted their maximum available UI benefits prior to finding new jobs. Using SIPP panel data and an event-study regression...
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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies – justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members’ gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives – to achieve equal gains for members. …
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Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Pogge, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
health. To support a justice argument for such modification, we show how the current global economic order may contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653979
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Linking Individuals and Societies
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...
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