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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1038 Ansgar H. Belke
Ralph Setzer
Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth: Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies
According to the traditional 'optimum currency area' approach, not much will be lost from a very hard peg to a currency union if there has been little reason for variations in the exchange rate. ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2003, 34 (3), 267-292)
F36, J32, P27
1037 Orley Ashenfelter
Michael Greenstone
Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the context of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (2), 454-460)
J17, C8, H43, I18, R4
1036 Patricia Apps
Ray Rees
Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market
This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life ...
(revised version published as "Family labor supply, taxation and saving in an imperfect capital market" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 297-323)
D13, D91, H31, J2
1035 N. Anders Klevmarken
Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work
Depending on data source, estimates of hours of work give widely different results both as to level and change. In this paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 55-73)
J22, C81, C39
1034 Maarten van Ham
Felix Büchel
Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females’ willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional ...
(published in: [Regional Studies], 2006, 40(3), 1-12)
R23, J13, J21, J64
1033 Rainald Borck
Michael P. Pflüger
Agglomeration and Tax Competition
Tax competition for a mobile factor is different in 'new economic geography settings' compared to standard tax competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 647-668)
F15, F22, H73, R12
1032 Bruce Headey
Mark Wooden
The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being
The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is ...
(Published in: Economic Record, 2004, 80 (S1), S24-S33. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4932.2004.00181.x)
D19
1031 Dina Abu-Ghaida
Stephan Klasen
The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity
At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 ...
(published in: World Development, 2004, 32 (7), 1075-1107)
I2, J7, J13, J16
1030 Ingrid Woolard
Stephan Klasen
Determinants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa
In this paper we analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South Africa’s most populous province, Kwazulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to industrialized and most ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2005, 41 (5), 865-897)
D63, J12, J15, J6
1029 Maurice Schiff
Trade Policy and Labor Services: Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza
This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2003, 18 (1), 60 - 104)
F10, F15, F16, J30, J61
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