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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …

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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper presents a modified and improved methodology for the decomposition of wage differentials between two groups … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … into the wage differential decompositions, two statistical methodologies are merged: the Oaxaca methodology and the Heckman …

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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyse close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ‘discrimination’, whether …

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A Small Quarterly Projection Model of the US Economy

Ermolaev, Igor; Juillard, Michel; Carabenciov, Ioan; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This is the first of a series of papers that are being written as part of a project to estimate a small quarterly Global Projection Model (GPM). The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In this paper, we estimate a small...

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Growth Empirics Under Model Uncertainty; Is Africa Different?

Tsangarides, Charalambos G. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

employs a novel methodology that incorporates a dynamic panel estimator, and Bayesian Model Averaging to explicitly account …

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A Small Quarterly Multi-Country Projection Model with Financial-Real Linkages and Oil Prices

Juillard, Michel; Freedman, Charles; Korshunov, Dmitry; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This is the third of a series of papers that are being written as part of a larger project to estimate a small quarterly Global Projection Model (GPM). The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In this paper, we estimate a small...

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Constructing Forecast Confidence Bands During the Financial Crisis

Clinton, Kevin; Johnson, Marianne; Chen, Huigang; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

We derive forecast confidence bands using a Global Projection Model covering the United States, the euro area, and Japan. In the model, the price of oil is a stochastic process, interest rates have a zero floor, and bank lending tightening affects the United States. To calculate confidence...

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A Small Quarterly Multi-Country Projection Model

Laxton, Jared; Ermolaev, Igor; Freedman, Charles; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This is the second of a series of papers that are being written as part of a larger project to estimate a small quarterly Global Projection Model (GPM). The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In this paper, we estimate a small...

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Estimation of Equilibrium Exchange Rates in the Waemu; A Robustness Approach

Saxegaard, Magnus; Roudet, Stéphane; Tsangarides, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Using the FEER approach we investigate the long-run equilibrium paths of the real effective exchange rates (REERs) of countries in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). In an attempt to address econometric estimation uncertainty, we employ both single-country (Johansen and ARDL)...

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Structural Models in Real Time

Clinton, Kevin; Johnson, Marianne; Benes, Jaromir; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper outlines a simple approach for incorporating extraneous predictions into structural models. The method allows the forecaster to combine predictions derived from any source in a way that is consistent with the underlying structure of the model. The method is flexible enough that...

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