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Both policy makers and researchers have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the large current account and capital account imbalances among OECD countries. In particular, the size of the United States current account deficit has attracted intense attention and spawned numerous...
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This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial...
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This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of … cointegration properties between health care spending and income. This is done in a panel data context controlling for both cross … dependence. Heterogeneity is handled through fixed effects in a panel homogeneous model and through a panel heterogeneous model …
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lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross …-sectional data on a larger set of countries. The time structure of the panel data allows us to deal with endogeneity concerns …
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rate stationarity for 25 countries. For robustness purpose, we have also used panel unit root tests without and with …
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The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004 …
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Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …
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In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm homicide and suicide rates. We find that the...
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This paper extends the traditional focus of active labor market policy evaluation from a static comparison of participation in a program versus nonparticipation (or participation in another program) to the evaluation of the effects of program sequences, i.e. multiple participation or timing of...
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small samples and methodological issues. We use individual-level panel data from Australia to examine the association …
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