Women are thought to be disadvantaged in developing countries. One of the major respects in which they are conjectured to be disadvantaged is that labor-market rewards to their schooling are less than those for males. This study investigates whether there are gender differentials in Indonesian...

This study complements the previous analyses of the effects of different types of detrending, by considering moving average detrending which is widely used in business cycle analysis by official and quasi-official agencies. Such detrending is shown to render a wide range of processes stationary,...

Using cross-section data for 1983, the paper attempts to shed light on the extent of Britain's North-South divide. Hedonic wage equations corrected for selectivity bias have been estimated for both manual and nonmanual employees to assess whether they compete in spatially distinct labor markets....

This paper examines the role of pay, human capital and mismatch in the decision to quit an occupation. Particular emphasis is given to human capital accumulation where occupations provide a fixed amount of training opportunities. An occupational quits equation is estimated using micro data from...

A Galton model, in logarithmic form, is used to explain the convergence of countries' productivities over time, including beta and sigma convergence. The 'regression fallacy' does not arise. When comparing growths and levels of productivity, countries should be classified by their initial levels...

The typical approach to classifying an individual as poor is to compare a scalar measure of his welfare with a specified poverty line. Income is the most commonly employed welfare measure, although expenditure is occasionally used. This paper compares the performance of the two indicators using...

We estimate the effects of unemployment benefit and family situation on the unemployment duration in Spain. Empirical results indicate that the distinctions between the exits into employment and the exists from the labor force and between men and women are important. Although unemployment...

This paper examines the Restart program which consists of an interview of the long term unemployed to counsel them on effective job search. We estimate the elasticities of the reservation wage with respect to the benefit level and the arrival late rate of offers using nonparametric methods based...

This article suggests a simple test for the null hypothesis that a process contains a unit root against a (trend) stationary alternative. It is based on the maximum value of the standard Dickey-Fuller tests when applied to both the forward and reverse data realizations. Thus, it requires no...

The postprivatization structure of the U.K. water industry involves the separation of environmental services from other outputs previously produced under an integrated system by the publicly-owned water authorities. This paper examines the extent to which the integrated authorities benefited...