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Income and life satisfaction in post-transition russia A new empirical methodology for panel data

Frijters, Paul - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766322

Speculative bubbles in stock prices? Tests based on the price-dividend ratio.

Engsted, Tom; Tanggaard, Carsten - Ehrvervøkonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2004

No abstract

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005802140

The evolution of income-related health inequalities in Switzerland over time

Leu, Robert E.; Schellhorn, Martin - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2004

This paper presents new evidence on income-related health inequality and its development over time in Switzerland. We employ the methods lined out in van Doorslaer and Jones (2003) and van Doorslaer and Koolman (2004) measuring health using an interval regression approach to compute...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005730948

Characterization of the skew-normal distribution

Gupta, Arjun; Nguyen, Truc; Sanqui, Jose - In: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 56 (2004) 2, pp. 351-360

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616455

Temporary employment and segmentation in the Spanish labour market: An empirical analysis through the study of wage differentials

Davia, María A.; Hernanz, Virginia - In: Spanish Economic Review 6 (2004) 4, pp. 291-318

We aim to add empirical evidence to the already studied field of wage differentials between temporary and permanent workers in Spain. Our goal is to find out which determinants of wage differentials are relevant when explaining such differences. Furthermore, the endogeneity of such feature (the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755525

Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGi) for Detecting Whether Two Sub-Samples Represent the Same Universe: The SOEP Experience

Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan; Schechtman, Edna; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

VAriance) performed on the basis of the Gini coefficient. The decomposition followed is presented in Yitzhaki (1994). We … rearrange, reinterpret and use the decomposition in the comparison of sub-populations from which the different subsamples were …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762016

Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762442

EFFICIENCY OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKETS: A DEVELOPING COUNTRY PERSPECTIVE

Wickremasinghe, Guneratne Banda - EconWPA - 2004

efficiency is tested using co- integration and Granger causality tests and variance decomposition analysis. Results indicate that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556627

Export Dynamics in Turkey

Sarikaya, Cagri - In: Central Bank Review 4 (2004) 2, pp. 41-64

wages in explaining the high export growth. We observe that, through historical decomposition of exports, real unit wage …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792636

Accounting for income distribution trends: A density function decomposition approach

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2004

This paper develops methods for decomposing changes in the income distribution using subgroup decompositions of the income density function. Overall changes are related to changes in subgroup shares and changes in subgroup densities, where the latter are broken down further using elementary...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796637