part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. These inferences were based on self … within the occupation is far more important than the presence of a pre-school child in determining whether a woman moves to a …

time series exhibits nonlinear behaviour. Our empirical findings provide significant evidence in favour of unemployment …

nine Western and Northern European countries, but is consistently rejected for Greece, Ireland, Italy, and Spain. In the … European countries, our results are in line with the finding of Proto and Rustichini (2013), who find a non-monotonic relation …

. All firms operate in agribusiness or related activities in a semi-urban area. An assessment of the short-term impacts …Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative … shows that beneficiaries of cash grants engage in better business practices, such as formalization and bookkeeping. They …

observed increase in wind power capacity. …

This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … panel framework. Using annual observations in a pooled setting (no country-fixed effects) confirms the positive link between … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged …

and asset data in recent waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find nonlinear persistence and conditional …

differences in total factor productivity and, in turn, as possible sources of economic growth. This paper presents the results of … for 17 countries over the period 1998-2007. The results suggest that there is a causal link in some of the most innovative …

the new estimators and provide comparisons of new and existing penalized estimators in terms of quadratic loss. We apply … distribution of hours. The overall effect tends to be larger at the lower tail, which suggests that changes in taxes have different … distribution of expenditure and across genders, and emphasize the importance of fully capturing consumer heterogeneity in demand …