This paper examines the impact of individual nutritional status on agricultural wage rates in southern Philippine province. Empirical results concur with other studies which have shown a positive relationship between nutritional status and labor productivity, as measured by wages for...

This paper reports an attempt to model the balance sheet behavior of a sample of smaller U.K. corporations with respect to items such as investment in inventories, trade credit and debt, and borrowing. Estimation of a mean-variance portfolio model supported the following hypothesis: (1)...

This paper describes simple methods for testing various hypotheses of proportionality between the cause-specific hazards in competing risks models. It provides methods for estimating competing risks models with equality restrictions across the cause-specific hazards as single risk models. Thus,...

This paper investigates the empirical relevance of the insider-outsider and duration theory in explaining hysteresis in long-term unemployment. Estimation results of the wage equation show that long-term unemployment has no weaker influence on wages than short-term unemployment. This indicates...

Robust methods have seldom been implemented with real economic data. This paper tries to fill the gap by estimating a small macro-model by the bounded-influence instrumental variables (BIV) estimator. The BIV estimates yield a standard error of the regression that is smaller than its least...

Many explanations for the recent productivity growth improvement in Britain have centered on changes in the labor market, arising from the changing role of trade unions for example. This paper asks whether changes in the product market are part of the story. The author proposes a model of...

This paper examines the extent of income inequality in Greece during the last three decades by estimating a broad set of aggregate and disaggregate inequality measures using the same data source and a common method of calculation. The empirical findings have shown that the middle and upper...

This paper considers different "quick" methods of estimating an index for the price of government bonds and applies these methods to postwar U.K. data. It is shown that different indices produce substantially different estimates of the average price of bonds. The preferred index is an estimate...