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Recent arguments that employment growth occurs disproportionately at small establishments are fundamentally misleading because they confuse regression to the mean with structural shifts in the size distribution of establishments and with an aging effect within cohorts. The net growth usually...
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Singapore%u2019s experience with international capital flows over the past two decades or so has been a rather %u2013 … system and equities market, and operating on a Currency Board (CB) system (although with some differences from Singapore … time. We next discuss Singapore%u2019s policy background and early experience, and in the light of Hong Kong%u2019s …
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upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this … paper also argues that despite (and beyond) Singapore, one has to go further than the GATT/WTO to see the potential …
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Five East Asian currencies -- the Indonesian rupiah, Korean won, Singapore dollar, Taiwanese dollar, and the Thai baht … simulation, the out-of-sample fit of the estimated models is relatively good for the won, Singapore and New Taiwan dollars, and …
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rather than the top down. We show an example, for Singapore, of how incomplete data can be used to obtain estimates of … estimates in Singapore and to resolve other empirical puzzles regarding Asian development …
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very long run, 100 or more years away. We exploit a unique feature of housing markets in the U.K. and Singapore, where …
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closely with a depreciating yen, suggesting the countries' emphasis on export promotion. The Singapore dollar, on the other …
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In countries, such as Singapore, that have implemented vehicle congestion policies, recent years have seen a shift …
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of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Participation rates, educational levels and (with the exception of Hong …
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The street sex worker market in Geylang, Singapore is highly competitive. Clients can search legally at negligible cost …
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