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households in the Caribbean. Jamaica is used as the case study country. The paper discusses the channels through which natural … disasters and remittances affect each other but also reviews the distribution of female-headed households in Jamaica as a …
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banks. Using usual statistical tests, we are unable to reject monopoly/perfect collusion for the banking market in Jamaica …
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The study examines the changes to total factor productivity of Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. Using Data Envelopment Analysis with bootstrap to construct a Malmquist index, bank productivity is measured and decomposed into technical progress and efficiency. The results suggest an...
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Deregulation, re-regulation and continuing globalisation embody an imperative that banks increase efficiency to survive. We employ non-parametric bootstrap DEA to measure technical efficiency among Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. In addition, we test for conditional convergence to identify...
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The recent literature on measuring bank performance indicates a preference for sophisticated techniques over simple accounting ratios. We explore the results and relationships between bank efficiency estimates using accounting ratios and Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) with bootstrap among Jamaican...
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, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad, during the 1985-1993 period using cointegration, Granger causality, and reduced form methods … them in Guyana and Trinidad, which unlike Jamaica applied infrequent and large adjustments to their official rates. The … causation is bi-directional in the case of Jamaica and uni-directional, with changes in the official rate Granger causing …
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We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we …
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. Relatively little empirical work has examined developing countries. We examine the total population of banks in Jamaica between …
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This paper analyzes gender earnings gaps in Barbados and Jamaica, using a matching comparisons approach. In both …' wages in Jamaica. In the former, the highest earnings gaps are found among low-income workers. Results from both countries … by economic sectors. Occupational experience, in the case of Barbados, and job tenure, in the case of Jamaica, help to …
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Jamaica seems to be a puzzling case for economic growth: despite the structural reforms implemented in the last three … to create a better environment for productivity growth. This paper examines the PDPs in Jamaica and concludes that behind …
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