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Gender Equality in Central and Eastern Europe : A Comparison of Labour Market Attitudes, Educational Achievement and Poverty between East and West

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2005

tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the …’s economic empowerment: the labour market, education and poverty. Large and complex data sets on peoples’ attitudes and … greater in transition than in OECD countries.On the other hand, once the feminisation of poverty is concerned data on …

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Messung der Vulnerabilität der Armut - Eine statistische Analyse mit deutschen Paneldaten ; Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty - A Statistical Analysis Using German Panel Data

Landau, Katja - 2013

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Changing patterns of South African income distribution: Towards time series estimates of distribution and poverty

van der Berg S.; Louw M. - 2004

we then combine to arrive at estimates of overall poverty from 1970 to 2000. However, data for the last few years of this … that these estimates are worst case estimates of poverty trends after 1995. An alternative, less pessimistic estimate is … to arrive at overall estimates of inequality and poverty; next we discuss the trends in poverty as derived from our data …

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A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Real Exchange Rates with General Transaction Costs

GOSWAMI, GAUTAM; SHRIKHANDE, MILIND; WU, LIUREN - 2002

We study the behavior of real exchange rates in a two-country dynamic equilibrium model. In this model, consumers can only consume domestic goods but can invest costlessly in capital stocks of both countries. Nevertheless, transporting goods between the two countries is costly and, hence, the...

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Real Exchange Rates Over the Past Two Centuries: How Important is the Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson Effect?

Lothian, James R.; Taylor, Mark P. - 2003

Using long-span data on the dollar-sterling and dollar-franc real exchange rates over the past two centuries, we apply the findings of various strands of the recent literature in order to examine the statistical and economic significance of the Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson effect (the effect of...

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Impact of general purchasing power accounting on Greek accounts

Baralexis, Spyridon K. - 1989

This Study addressed the inflation accountingproblem with respect to Greece. This problem had been unaddressed despite the serious implications it may have on micro- and macro-decision making due to the high andpersistent inflation Greece has sustained from 1973 and afterwards.To accomplish the...

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Confidence Intervals for Half-Life Deviations From Purchasing Power Parity

Rossi, Barbara - 2005

According to the Purchasing Power Parity {(PPP)} theory, real exchange rate fluctuations are mainly caused by transitory shocks. The theory fits well one empirical feature of the data, namely the short-run volatility of real exchange rates, but also implies that shocks should die away in one to...

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Price, Output, and Exchange Rate Movements in the Open Economy

Kimbrough, K. P. - 1983

world in which all markets clear continuously. …

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Equilibrium Exchange Rates in Transition Economies: Taking Stock of the Issues

Égert, Balázs; Halpern, László; MacDonald, Ronald - 2005

In this paper we present an overview of a number of issues relating to the equilibrium exchange rates of transition economies of the former soviet bloc. In particular, we present a critical overview of the various methods available for calculating equilibrium exchange rates and discuss how...

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Real exchange rates in latin america: The ppp hypothesis and fractional integration

Caporale, GM - 2008

This paper tests for PPP in a group of seventeen Latin American (LA) countries by applying fractional integration techniques to real exchange rate series. Compared to earlier studies on these economies, this approach has the advantage of allowing for non-integer values for the degree of...

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