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Policies To Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico

Arias, Javier - 2010

This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of...

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The Reservation Wage of Unemployed Persons in the Federal Republic of Germany : Theory and Empirical Tests

Franz, Wolfgang - 1980

This study examines the determinants of the reservation wage of unemployed persons in the Federal Republic of Germany …

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The Duration of Youth Unemployment in West Germany : Some Theoretical Considerations

Franz, Wolfgang - 1979

This paper presents a theoretical model dealing with the duration of youth unemployment in West Germany. Duration can …

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Flexibility and Job Creation : Lessons for Germany

Heckman, James J. - 2002

This paper examines the performance of the German economy and the role of the regulation and welfare state policies in affecting its performance. While the German economy is still strong, incentives in place are likely to impair future German competitiveness and productivity

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Young and Out in Germany : On the Youths' Chances of Labor Market Entrance in Germany

Franz, Wolfgang - 1997

This paper deals with the labor market entrance of young people in the Federal Republic" of Germany. The main focus is … on failures during this stage. First, an overview of the youth" labor market in Germany is given. Then, the transition …

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German and American Wage and Price Dynamics : Differences and Common Thenes

Franz, Wolfgang - 1993

The evolution of unemployment in West Germany and the U. S. stands in sharp contrast, with German unemployment much … big difference berween the two countries is that there is no feedback from wages to prices in Germany, and so high … unemployment does not put downward pressure on the inflation rate. During the 19705 and 19805 in Germany there emerged a growing …

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Instrumental Variables, Selection Models, and Tight Bounds on the Average Treatment Effect

Heckman, James J. - 2000

This paper exposits and relates two distinct approaches to bounding the average treatment effect. One approach, based on instrumental variables, is due to Manski (1990, 1994), who derives tight bounds on the average treatment effect under a mean independence form of the instrumental variables...

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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites

Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999

This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...

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Accounting for Heterogeneity, Diversity, and General Equilibriumin Evaluating Social Programs

Heckman, James J. - 1999

This paper considers the problem of policy evaluation in a modern society with heterogeneous agents and diverse groups with conflicting interests. Several different approaches to the policy evaluation problem are compared including the approach adopted in modern welfare economics, the classical...

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New Methods for Estimating Labor Supply Functions : A Survey

Heckman, James J. - 1982

This paper surveys new methods for estimatifg labor supply functions. A unified framework of analysis is presented. All recent models of labor supply are special cases of a general index function model developed for the analysis o dummy endogenous variables

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