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On price-setting for identical products in markets without formal trade barriers
Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Schettkat, Ronald - 2001
This paper investigates price-setting for truly homogenous products sold in markets without any formal trade barriers … EU countries. We get four remarkable outcomes: 1) The law of one price does not hold. 2) Country-specific effects of non …-tradable cost components are important. 3) Pricing to the market surely occurs but price discrimination is limited by incomplete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001610695
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Sexual bias and household consumption : a semiparametric analysis of Engel curves in rural China
Gong, Xiaodong - 2000
We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, also subdivided into several food subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268745
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The determination of a migration wave using ethnicity and community ties
Locher, Lilo - 2001
If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration, they adopt some of the new country's habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when they have been restricted to live in the foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001630249
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Works councils and collective bargaining in Germany : the impact on productivity and wages
Hübler, Olaf; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2001
bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001610714
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Selection correction in panel data models : an application to labour supply and wages
Dustmann, Christian; Rochina Barrachina, María E. - 2000
the estimation methods discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001502478
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Wages and the demand for health : a life cycle analysis
Dustmann, Christian; Windmeijer, Frank - 2000
equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage effects, and positive permanent effects. Estimation results based on our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001506081
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Return migration, wage differentials, and the optimal migration duration
Dustmann, Christian - 2001
temporary, the optimal migration duration may decrease if the wage differential grows larger. Using micro data for Germany, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001573332
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Selective schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
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The optimal migration duration and activity choice after re-migration
Dustmann, Christian; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2001
If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: What determines their optimal migration duration, and what are the activities migrants choose after a return. Little research has been devoted...
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The response of consumption in Russian households to economic shocks
Stillman, Steven - 2001
movements in the real ruble-dollar exchange rate. The price of oil, which is typically thought to have a strong effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001663196