Difference in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...

This paper shows that wage-unemployment elasticities derived from estimated wage curves and Phillips curves may be critically dependent on the measurement of wages. Incorporating hourly wage earnings, that include the influence of overtime payments, can lead to seriously distorted results....

The subject of the article is the relationship between unemployment and wages at the regional level in the Czech Republic in the period 2003-2010. The aim of the authors was to verify the construction possibility and validity of regional wage and Phillips curves both in the regions and at the...

Replaced with revised version of paper 06/08/2010.

We estimate the public wage gap in France for the period 1990-2002, both at the mean andat different quantiles of the wage distribution, for men and women separately. We account forunobserved heterogeneity by using fixed effects estimations on panel data and, departingfrom usual practice, allow...

Few publications have attempted to tackle the nature of alcohol on a global level. Given its universal availability and the emerging amount of alcohol-related data, we explore the cross-country and cross-continent nature of alcohol. Similarly, the extremely visible global burden of disease...

Three methods: fixed intercept generalized model (GLM), random intercept generalized mixed model (GLMM), and conditional logistic regression (clogit) are compared in a meta-analysis of 43 studies assessing the effect of diet on cancer incidence in rats. We also perform simulation studies to...

This paper examines the varying impact of the Import and Export on the impulsiveness nature of the Exchange Rate in four EU (European Union) economies such as Austria, Germany, France and Italy for a period of 56 years from 1960 – 2015. In achieving an accurate result for testing this...

Incluye bibliografía ; In this paper I consider a model for the heterogeneity and dynamics of the conditional mean and the conditional variance of standarized individual wages. In particular, I propose a dynamic panel data model with individual effects both in the mean and in a conditional ARCH...

Like any other company, life insurance companies maintain a combination of debt and equity for their long-term financing, which forms their capital structure. Many theories have been developed in the literature to focus upon the determinants that are likely to affect leverage decisions of the...