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On the Extent of Economic Integration: A Comparison of EU Countries and US States

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

This discussion paper led to a forthcoming publication in </I>Journal of Regional Science</I> entitled 'Are EU Countries less Integrated than US States? Theory and Evidence'.<P> European economic integration is commonly believed to be incomplete, and that further reforms are needed. In this context, the...</p>

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Do Experts incorporate Statistical Model Forecasts and should they?

Legerstee, Rianne; Franses, Philip Hans; Paap, Richard - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Experts can rely on statistical model forecasts when creating their own forecasts. Usually it is not known what experts actually do. In this paper we focus on three questions, which we try to answer given the availability of expert forecasts and model forecasts. First, is the expert forecast...

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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using …

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Teenage Motherhood and Long-run Outcomes in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...

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Health and Work of the Elderly

Lindeboom, Maarten; Kerkhofs, Marcel - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper aims to exp1ore the interre1ation between hea1th and work decisions of e1der1y workers, taking the various ways in which hea1th and work can influence each other exp1icitly into account. For this, two issues are of re1evance. Se1f-assessed health measures are usually at hand in...

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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial … endogeneity is really present, whether it matters and whether the selected instruments make sense. Using Bayesian methods, we find … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …

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An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the spouse, disability, and a move to

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Your Next of Kin or your Own Career? Caring and Working among the 50+ of Europe

Bolin, K.; Lindgren, B.; Lundborg, P. - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

An increasing demand for both formal and informal care is likely to result from the ongoing demographic transition at the same time as there is a further move away from the traditional domestic division of labour. Public policy-making that aims at increasing the supply of informal care...

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Regulated Efficiency, World Trade Organization Accession, and the Motor Vehicle Sector in China

Francois, Joseph F.; Spinanger, Dean - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

This paper is concerned with the interaction of regulated efficiency and World Trade Organization (WTO) accession and its impact on China’s motor vehicle sector. The analysis is conducted using a 23 sector–25 region computable general equilibrium model. Regulatory reform and internal...

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Assessing the Impact of Trade Policy on Labor Markets and Production

Francois, Joseph - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

This paper discusses the measurement of production and employment effects of trade policy, and more broadly the effects of economic integration and globalization. First, it provides a broad-brush overview of the ex-post literature linking trade to performance, such as measures of worker...

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