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Monetary policy rules in theory and in practice : evidence from the UK and the US
Paez-Farrell, Juan - In: Applied economics 41 (2009) 16/18, pp. 2037-2046
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Why has wage inequality increased more in the USA than in Europe? : An empirical investigation of the demand and supply of skill
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - In: Applied economics 38 (2006) 7, pp. 771-788
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003324835
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An application of maximum entropy estimation : the demand for meat in the United Kingdom
Fraser, Iain M. - In: Applied economics 32 (2000) 1, pp. 45-59
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Assessing inflation expectations anchoring for heterogeneous agents : analysts, businesses and trade unions
Miyajima, Ken; Yetman, James - In: Applied economics 51 (2019) 41, pp. 4499-4515
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Quashing demand criminalizing clients? : evidence from the UK
Della Giusta, Marina; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Jewell, Sarah - 2019
We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … Lifestyles (Natsal2, conducted in 2000-2001 and Natsal3, conducted in 2010-2012) to illustrate the changes in demand that have … taken place across the two waves. We do not find demand decreasing in our sample and find a shift in the composition of …
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The measurement of racial discrimination in pay between job categories : theory and test
Bodvarsson, Örn B. (contributor);  … - 2008
The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination and test it on data from Major League Baseball. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760321
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Unexplained gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions
Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John Henry; Haider, Steven - 2009
We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naive regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832324
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From shame to game in one hundred years : an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...
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Selection wages : an example
Schlicht, Ekkehart (contributor) - 2006
Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in this way in the labor market, "selection wages" emerge. This note illustrates this wage-setting mechanism. Selection wages may engender unconventional results, such as a pre-tax...
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A bivariate Markov regime switching GARCH approach to estimate time varying minimum variance hedge ratios
Lee, Hsiang-tai; Yoder, Jonathan K. - In: Applied economics 39 (2007) 10/12, pp. 1253-1265
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