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Poverty traps and nonlinear income dynamics with measurement error and individual heterogeneity
Antman, Francisca - 2005
"Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift. However, empirical detection of poverty traps is complicated by the lack of long panels, measurement error, and attrition. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can...
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Insurance and liquidity : panel evidence
Shankar, Rashmi - 2005
"The author presents evidence that balance sheet effects are critical determinants of both the likelihood of a crisis and of income losses following a crisis. She tests the validity of "insurance" and "liquidity" models of currency crisis. Both models predict that the occurrence of a balance of...
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Unemployment and worker-firm matching : theory and evidence from East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel - 2009
inefficient matching. Hypothesis 2 (H2) is that unemployment is caused by low demand. Hypothesis 3 (H3) is that restructuring is … returns to scale in matching and unemployment appears to be driven by restructuring and low demand. The East German case is … complex because of its major active labor market policies and a negative trend in efficiency in matching. In some sense, East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394104
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Market power and the matching of trade credit terms
Fabbri, Daniele - 2008
to their customers, and to "match maturity" between the contract terms of payables and receivables. This matching …
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Georgia : Skills Mismatch and Unemployment, Labor Market Challenges
World Bank - 2013
This paper reviews labor market performance in Georgia, and examines the link between labor market outcomes and poverty. At over 15 percent, the unemployment rate in the country is high by European standards. Georgia faces three main labor market issues: (a) underutilization of labor resources,...
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Matching Aspirations : Skills for Implementing Cambodia's Growth Strategy
World Bank - 2013
Over the past decade, Cambodia improved the skills of its workforce at a slower rate than other countries in East Asia. And, although Cambodia's firms do not perceive skills as their main business constraint, skills shortages may negatively affect the process of both industrial and agricultural...
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Quantitative analysis of crisis : crisis identification and causality
Ishihara, Yoichiro - 2005
"Studies use different conceptual and operational definitions of crises. The different crisis identifications can lead to inconsistent conclusions and policy formulation even if the same analytical framework is applied. Also, most studies focus on only a few types of crises. This narrow focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522602
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Determinants of economic growth : a Bayesian panel data approach
Moral-Benito, Enrique - 2009
"Model uncertainty hampers consensus on the key determinants of economic growth. Some recent cross-country, cross-sectional analyses have employed Bayesian Model Averaging to address the issue of model uncertainty. This paper extends that approach to panel data models with country-specific fixed...
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The return to firm investment in human capital
Carneiro, Pedro - 2006
"In this paper the authors estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as...
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