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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
1028 Maurice Schiff
Yanling Wang
Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America
This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific ...
(published in: El Trimestre Economico, 2010, 302 (2))
F10, I20, O30, O38, O54
1027 Maurice Schiff
Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital
Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2004, 12 (4), 630-642)
F16, F22, J61, Z13
1026 Nicolai Kristensen
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
Does Low Job Satisfaction Lead to Job Mobility?
This paper seeks to analyse the role of job satisfaction and actual job change behaviour. The analysis is based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) data for Danish families 1994-2000. ...
(published as 'Job satisfaction and quits – Which job characteristics matters most?' in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift / Danish Economic Journal, 2006, 144 (2), 230-248)
J28, J30, J60, M50
1025 Guido Friebel
Sergei Guriev
Smuggling Humans: A Theory of Debt-Financed Migration
We introduce financial constraints in a theoretical analysis of illegal immigration. Intermediaries finance the migration costs of wealth-constrained migrants, who enter temporary servitude ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (6), 1085-1111)
O15, O17, J61, N21
1024 Hartmut Egger
Volker Grossmann
Noncognitive Abilities and Within-Group Wage Inequality
This paper argues that endogenous restructuring processes within firms towards productivityenhancing human resource activities, triggered by advances in information and communication technologies ...
(published as "Non-Routine Tasks, Restructuring of Firms, and Wage Inequality Within and Between Skill-Groups" in: Journal of Economics, 2005, 86 (3), 197-225)
D20, J31
1022 Philippe Cattoir
Frédéric Docquier
Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions
This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Drèze's distributive ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2004, 38 (3), 293-303)
H60, H77
1021 Horst Entorf
Nicoleta Minoiu
PISA Results: What a Difference Immigration Law Makes
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6(3), 355-376)
I20, J15, J18, O15, Z13
1020 Erkki Koskela
Rune Stenbacka
Profit Sharing, Credit Market Imperfections and Equilibrium Unemployment
We investigate the interaction between labour and credit market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment in the presence of profit sharing. In a partial equilibrium with exogenous outside options ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (4), 677-701)
J51, J41, G32
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