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Sticky feet : how labor market frictions shape the impact of international trade on jobs and wages
Hollweg, Claire H. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394027
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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation
Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009
"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394156
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522552
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The relative richness of the poor? : Natural resources, human capital, and economic growth
Bravo-Ortega, Claudio - 2005
"Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? Bravo-Ortega and De Gregorio present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522714
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A survey of securities laws and enforcement
Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio - 2004
"Lopez-de-Silanes examines the theoretical and empirical literature pertaining to securities laws and their enforcement by regulators and courts to establish what is known and what is yet unclear. Recent empirical research in the field has established that law matters. Mandatory disclosure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522929
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Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data
Bourguignon, François - 2004
"Bourguignon, Goh, and Kim present an original method to study individual earning dynamics using repeated cross-sectional data. Because panel data of individuals are seldom available in developing countries, it is difficult to study individual earning dynamics and related issues such as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522959
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Building effective employment programs for unemployed youth in the Middle East and North Africa
Angel-Urdinola, Diego F. - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393910
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Unemployment and worker-firm matching : theory and evidence from East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel - 2009
"The paper tests three hypotheses about the causes of unemployment in the Central-East European transition economies … and in a benchmark market economy (Western part of Germany). The first hypothesis (H1) is that unemployment is caused by … inefficient matching. Hypothesis 2 (H2) is that unemployment is caused by low demand. Hypothesis 3 (H3) is that restructuring is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394104
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Wage subsidy and labor market flexibility in South Africa
Go, Delfin S. (contributor) - 2009
"In this paper, the authors use a highly disaggregate general equilibrium model to analyze the feasibility of a wage subsidy to unskilled workers in South Africa, isolating and estimating its potential employment effects and fiscal cost. They capture the structural characteristics of the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394165