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Labor Adjustment Costs Across Sectors and Regions

Cruz, Marcio - 2017

This paper estimates the mobility costs of workers across sectors and regions in a large sample of developing countries. The paper develops a new methodology that uses cross-sectional data only. This is motivated by the fact that panel data typically are not available for most developing...

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Capital Adjustment and the Optimal Fuel Choice

Hyland, Marie - 2017

This paper analyzes the important, yet often ignored, link between capital adjustment and the choice of fuels used by manufacturing firms. A novel econometric framework, which explicitly incorporates heterogeneous fuel-using capital stocks in the estimation of optimal fuel choice, is applied to...

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Trade, Informal Employment and Labor Adjustment Costs

Arias, Javier - 2017

Informal employment is ubiquitous in developing countries, but few studies have estimated workers'switching costs between informal and formal employment. This paper builds on the empirical literature grounded in discrete choice models to estimate these costs. The results suggest that...

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Estimates of Trade-Related Adjustment Costs in Syria

Lim, Jamus Jerome - 2017

The scope and complexity of international trading arrangements in the Middle East, as well as their spotty historical record of success, underscores the urgent need for an adequate understanding of the relative costs and benefits of participation in preferential trading arrangements and, more...

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Disaster Risk Management and Fiscal Policy : Narratives, Tools, and Evidence Associated with Assessing Fiscal Risk and Building Resilience

Mechler, Reinhard - 2017

promoted. Co-benefits are defined as positive externalities that arise deliberately as a result of a joint strategy that …

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Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies in Transport and Agriculture

Commander, Simon - 2017

It is widely accepted that the costs of underpricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors?transport...

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The Second Wave of Independence : Shopping for Solutions

Gaarder, Marie - 2017

outcomes. The paper argues that the development marketplace is beset by market imperfections because of externalities …

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Demand Side Instruments to Reduce Road Transportation Externalities in the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Area

Parry, Ian W. H. - 2017

-mile tolls could target congestion and accident externalities more efficiently than fuel taxes, although they are not practical … externalities (versus $0.22 without fuel taxes) would be most efficient. Current public bus and rail subsidies are relatively close … to efficient levels in the absence of such policies; however, if automobile and microbus externalities were fully …

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Should Wall-Street Be Occupied? An Overlooked Price Externality of Financial Intermediation

Eden, Maya - 2017

Does an unregulated financial system absorb too many productive inputs? This paper studies this question in the context of a dynamic model with heterogeneous producers. In the absence of a financial system, the only way to purchase inputs is using internal funds. Producers are subject to...

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On Gender and Growth : The Role of Intergenerational Health Externalities and Women's Occupational Constraints

Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2017

This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health …

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