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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...

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The China price : evidence and some implications

Álvarez, Roberto; Claro, Sebastián - In: Estudios de economía 33 (2006) 2, pp. 117-139

China's import penetration in Chilean markets is higher in unskilled-labor intensive sectors as predicted by traditional endowment-based theories of comparative advantage. However, there is also evidence of within-industry specialization. In particular, high-income countries receive higher...

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Apertura económica y producto sectorial : alguna evidencia para la economía Argentina

Lanteri, Luis N. - In: Atlantic review of economics 2 (2011), pp. 1-28

vision for agriculture and manufacturing sectors. In this paper, we try to determine the impact of external terms of trade … and domestic (the latter considers foreign trade policy) on the product of both sectors and unemployment rates. To this …:1-2011:1. It is noted that the variance of agricultural GDP is mostly explained by shocks in the external terms of trade, unlike …

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Competitividad de las exportaciones de carne vacuna de Argentina durante el período 1996 - 2007 : análisis comparativo con Brasil

Picardi, Marta Susana; Blanco, Josefina; Perrier, Julieta - In: Atlantic review of economics 2 (2011), pp. 1-29

The industry of the bovine meat is important in the economy of the Argentine Republic for being an activity with old tradition, has a world-wide recognition of quality and it constitutes a source of currency entrance by exports. The sector counts with comparative advantages for the production...

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