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Multiple time series procedures suitable for estimation and testing with nonstationary data are applied to UK data on age-specific fertility rates, age-specific female labour force participation rates, and women's and men's wages. Cointegration tests establish the existence of two long-run...
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Tests of cointegration are applied to the monetary model of the exchange rate to determine if the model represents a long-run equilibrium relation for three high-inflation countries. The countries tested are Argentina, Chile, and Israel, each paired with the United States as the base country....
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Cointegration methods are employed to investigate relations among total fertility, female wages, labor force participation, educational attainment, and male relative cohort size. Two long run relations among the series are found, and these are identified as a fertility and a labor supply...
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Water usage in Mecca is dominated by trends and cyclical variations in the number of foreign pilgrims visiting for the annual Hajj Pilgrimage. Time series regressions show that the mean temperature in Mecca at the time of the Hajj affects the number of pilgrims, inducing a long-term cyclical...
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We find that from about 1965 to 1983 US employees’ compensation, EC, relative to corporate profit, CP, increases in the long run, and from 1984 to 2013 the compensation decreases relative to profit to about half its 1983 value. The first period includes “US peacetime inflation”,...
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This article presents a critique of tests of market efficiency commonly applied to energy futures markets. Most of this literature fails to deal adequately with the endogeneity, nonstationarity, and cointegration characteristics of spot and futures prices, resulting in tests that are not...
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This paper presents tests and estimates of the human capital model of income inequality using synthetic cohort data for Thailand: 1992–2011. The model focuses on four primary determinants of income inequality: mean per capita income levels, the variances in years of education, in the number of...
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