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Cointegration Analysis in an Inflationary Environment: What Can We Learn from Ukraine's Nominal Exports?

Strauß, Hubert - 2001

Ukrainian exports can be explained by standard demand theory in the long run. Using the Johansen procedure the data do not reject the hypothesis of a unit foreign-production elasticity of Ukrainian exports, which are rather price-elastic inputs for foreign producers. It is argued that due to...

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Determinants of exports in the G7-countries

Lapp, Susanne; Scheide, Joachim; Solveen, Ralph - 1995

Real effective exchange rates and economic activity in trading partner countries have a considerable impact on real exports of the G7-countries. Using an errorcorrection framework we find that the short-run and the long-run effects differ substantially between the countries. The relative...

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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts? the number of individuals of the same ethnicity?and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic group....

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How does the unemployment insurance system shape the time profile of jobless duration?

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2004

This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline hazard function and allowing for discrete changes...

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Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru

Ñopo, Hugo; Saavedra, Jaime; Torero, Maximo - 2004

In this paper we study the relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several dimensions: mother tongue, parental background, religion, migration events and race. In order to...

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Matching as a tool to decompose wage gaps

Ñopo, Hugo - 2004

In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The … approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides useful … insights about the distribution of the unexplained gender differences in pay. The proposed methodology, a non …

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Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2004

European Community Household Panel, we investigate these issues for private sector men in ten European Union countries. Our …

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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Brücker, Herbert; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2004

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IABemployment sample, we find however...

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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent entrepreneur and the regional stratification of the …

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Threshold Effects of Dismissal Protection Legislation in Germany

Verick, Sher - 2004

In this paper we use a reform in the applicability of the Protection Against Dismissal Act or Kündigungsschutzgesetz in Germany to identify employment effects of the legislation for small establishments. Using a panel of establishments for the period 1997-2001, we find some evidence that a...

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