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Is the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis Valid for Developing Countries? Evidence from the Turkish Cement Industry

Saygili, Seref - 1998

are tested in two ways: estimation of wage augmented production frontiers and the simultaneous estimation of a production …

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Intention to Emigrate in Transition Countries: The Case of Albania

Papapanagos, Harry; Sanfey, Peter - 1998

We analyse the profile of potential emigrants from Albania using data from the Central and Eastern Europe Eurobarometer in 1992. Respondents were asked to rate on a four-point scale the likelihood that they would go to Western Europe to live and work. Our results show that the intention to...

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The Effect of Disability on Employment Allowing for Work Incapacity

O'Donnell, Owen - 1998

Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some individuals capable of work. A model in which both a capacity and a desire for work are necessary conditions for employment is estimated from a sample of British disabled men....

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Why has Work Effort become more intense? Conjectures and Evidence about Effort-Biased Technical Change and other stories

Green, Francis - 2000

I investigate possible explanations for work intensification, using four British data sets. I conjecture that an important source of work intensification is effort-biased technical change (EBTC), which enhances the productivity of high effort workers relative to that of low effort workers. EBTC...

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Geography and Intra-National Home Bias: U.S. Domestic Trade in 1949 and 2007

Crafts, Nicholas; Klein, Alexander - 2013

This paper examines home bias in U.S. domestic trade in 1949 and 2007. We use a unique data set of 1949 carload waybill statistics produced by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and 2007 Commodity Flow Survey data. The results show that home bias was considerably smaller in 1949 than in 2007...

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Remittances and Return Migration

Collier, William; Piracha, Matloob; Randazzo, Teresa - 2011

This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants were abroad. We approach our research question from the perspective of three sending countries in the Maghreb, namely Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. We investigate the remittance...

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Liquidity constraints versus loss aversion in household consumption: a simple reconciliation

van Treeck, Till - 2010

Various deviations from the Permanent Income consumption model with rational expectations have been discussed in the literature, including loss aversion and liquidity constraints. In the existing literature, these two types of consumption asymmetry are usually considered as mutually exclusive....

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Recession Forecasting with Dynamic Probit Models under Real Time Conditions

Proaño, Christian R. - 2010

In this paper a dynamic probit model for recession forecasing under pseudo-real time is set up using a large set of macroeconomic and financial monthly indicators for Germany. Using different initial sets of explanatory variables, alternative dynamic probit specifications are obtained through an...

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The Great Moderation and the Decoupling of Monetary Policy from Long-Term Rates in the U.S. and Germany

Greenwood-Nimmo, Matthew; Shin, Yongcheol; van Treeck, Till - 2010

We apply the asymmetric ARDL model advanced by Shin, Yu and Greenwood-Nimmo (2009) to the analysis of the patterns of pass-through from policy-controlled interest rates to a variety of longer-term rates in the U.S. and Germany. Our results reveal three main phenomena. Firstly, while the e®ect...

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Shifting Preferences at the Fed: Evidence from Rolling Dynamic Multipliers and Impulse Response Analysis

Greenwood-Nimmo, Matthew; Shin, Yongcheol - 2010

attribute these mixed estimation results to a raft of empirical issues from which many existing studies suffer, including bias … the operation of a Taylor-type rule, albeit with considerable inertia. We argue that estimation across rolling windows may … estimation provides substantial evidence that the inflation and output preferences of the Fed have varied through time …

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