employment across Mexican states. As a measure of formal employment we use the number of workers with permanent contracts … states are highly heterogeneous with respect to the degree of employment comovement and the association between the state and … national employment. Only in 11 of the 32 states we find that fluctuations in state employment are highly synchronized between …

. Thus, the regression analyses prove once more the fact that the United States of America are no homogenous country. Beside …

determine an optimal number of states for the HMM. The selected four-state HMM is then used to predict monthly closing prices of …

) to choose the numbers of states from HMM.We then use the models to predict close prices of these three stocks using both …. The criteria tests' results showed that HMM with two states worked the best among two, three and four states for the three …

Despite the relevance of geographical disparities in India, earnings inequality occurs mostly within states, but with a … inequality gaps between most populous states and India. Our results point to substantial compositional effects associated with …

In 2007, the foreign-born population in the United States reached 38 million persons, comprising approximately 12 ….6 percent of the United States population. Of the foreign born, approximately 10.3 million or 29 percent were illegally in the … country. Because the foreign born were heavily clustered in five states, a product of network-driven migration, the impact of …

and analysis of the demography of all 13 western states. The demographic compositions of the western region as a whole and …

Central America to the United States, from West Asia through Greece and Turkey to Western Europe, and within East and …

practices of the states. Chapter 3 investigates the determinants of the configuration of one of the latest of such institutions … senate and the fractionalization of the lower house) have had a significant impact on the way states have chosen to configure … properly explained if we ignore the set of other institutions that exist in the states. We find that balanced budget …