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Spatial Dependence of Regional Unemployment in the European Union
Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002
The findings of recent studies on adjustment processes suggest that regional labour markets in the EU and the US differ significantly. Low wage flexibility and limited labour mobility in European countries involve persistent unemployment differentials across regions. However, the spatial...
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The future of Indigenous work: forecasts of labour force status to 2011
Hunter, Boyd; Kinfu, Yohannes; Taylor, John - 2003
The recent release of the final results for the 2001 Census presents an opportunity to assess the net change in employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians for the period covering the first two Howard administrations. This paper uses demographic techniques to make valid comparisons over time,...
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Population Pyramid And Economic Growth: An Econometric analysis of Sri Lanka
Kumarasinghe, Pivithuru Janak; Wickramasinghe, Anuraj - 2018
Economists are torn between basically three schools of thoughts where the first theory states that the population growth will stimulate the economic growth of a country and other believes that the population growth will bring detrimental or adverse impact to the economic growth. Not only that,...
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Application of the multiple frame design in an economic distributional effects study.
Kleweno, D.G. - 1981
Abstract: A multiple frame survey design was used to study establishment and household characteristics and to make inferences about the population of interest. The methodology required for frame construction, sampling, field enumeration, and estimation is illustrated. The nine-county Kentucky...
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International migration pressures in the long run
Campos, Rodolfo G. - 2017
En este trabajo se estima la contribución del crecimiento demográfico a la migración bilateral por medio de un modelo gravitacional y se utilizan los resultados para proyectar flujos migratorios basados en las previsiones de crecimiento demográfico de las Naciones Unidas. Para ello se...
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Three essays in spatial econometrics and labor economics
Le, Canh Quang - 2009
This dissertation is a combination of three essays on spatial econometrics and labor economics. Essays 1 and 2 … test for functional forms and spatial dependence.Essay 3 investigates the effects of fertility on parental labor force … fertility on parental labor force participation and the IV models to estimate the effects of fertility on parental labor supply …
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Essays in economic geography: Convergence, inequalities and innovations in the knowledge economy
Galvis, Luis A. - 2010
My dissertation consists of four papers embedded within the Economic Geography field. The first paper analyzes economic growth and convergence from a time series perspective focusing on regional labor markets. The second paper uses microdata to evaluate what is termed conditional sigma...
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Applied quantile regression: microeconometric, financial, and environmental analyses
Schulze, Niels - 2004
In 1978, Roger Koenker and Gilbert Bassett, Jr. introduced a new econometric estimation method and entitled it quantile regression. Since then, many subsequent authors have elaborated and extended the underlying theoretical framework. Other contributions have successfully applied the procedure...
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Where is the Market? Three Econometric Approaches to Measure Contributions to Price Discovery
Peter, Franziska Julia - 2011
Measuring the contribution of different markets to the price discovery process of a common asset has been the subject of many research studies in the last decade. In particular the newly developed derivatives markets have given rise to an increasing number of empirical studies examining the...
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The Economics of Environmental Crime : Theoretical Aspects and Econometric Investigations
Almer, Christian Alexander - 2009
The present thesis extends the economic literature on the enforcement of environmental regulations by empirically analysing the effectiveness of environmental criminal law. It is a shortcoming of the discussion on the merits of criminal sanctions for environmental offenses that the empirical...
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