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2002-4 Intergenerational Persistence Of Earnings: The Role Of Early And College Education, Diego Restuccia, Carlos Urrutia

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.

2002-5 Measuring Effective Tax Rates On Human Capital: The Canadian Case, Kirk A. Collins, James B. Davies

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.

2002-6 Border Delays And Trade Liberalization, Edgar Cudmore, John Whalley

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.

2002-7 Canadian Retirement Savings Plans And Italian Pension Reform, Joel Fried, Francesca Arnaboldi

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.

2002-13 Precocious British Industrialization: A General Equilibrium Perspective, N F.R. Crafts, C Knick Harley

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-12 Minimal Asymptotic Distributions For Estimators Of Panel Data Models, Tiemen Woutersen

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-11 A Pleasant Homeomorphism For Conditional Probability Systems, Peter A. Streufert

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-10 Adaptive Estimation Of The Dynamic Linear Model With Fixed Effects, Tiemen Woutersen, Marcel Voia

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-09 Two Views Of The Lender Of Last Resort: Thornton And Bagehot, David Laidler

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-08 Robustness Against Incidental Parameters, Tiemen Woutersen

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-07 Statutory Tax Burden And Its Avoidance In Transitional Russia, Vlad Ivanenko

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-06 The Singularity Of The Information Matrix Of The Mixed Proportional Hazard Model, Geert Ridder, Tiemen Woutersen

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-05 The Arar Error Model For Univariate Time Series And Distributed Lag Models, R A.L. Carter, A Zellner

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-04 How Often Are Propositions On The Effects Of Regional Trade Agreements Theoretical Curiosa And When Should They Guide Policy?, Lisandro Abrego, Raymond Riezman, John Whalley

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-03 Discreteness And The Welfare Cost Of Labour Supply Tax Distortions, Keshab Bhattarai, John Whalley

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-02 Adaptation, Internalization And Environmental Damage, Lisandro Abrego, John Whalley

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2002-01 Are Price Controls Necessarily Bad? The Case Of Rice In Vietnam, Madanmohan Ghosh, John Whally

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Characteristics Of Households Experiencing Housing Instability, Leona K. Hawks, Tawnee Mccay

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

Future Exchange Rate Regimes For Developing East Asia: Exploring The Policy Options, Sven W. Arndt

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Major Appliance Selection, Leona K. Hawks, Tawnee Mccay

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

Inspección De La Vivienda, Leona K. Hawks, Lucy Delgadillo

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Auctions And Multilateral Negotiations, Charles J. Thomas, Bart J. Wilson

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

We compare first-price auctions to an exchange process that we term 'multilateral negotiations.' In multilateral negotiations, a buyer solicits price offers for a homogeneous product from sellers with privately known costs, and then plays the sellers off one another to obtain additional price concessions. Using the experimental method, we find that with four sellers, transaction prices are statistically indistinguishable in the two institutions, but with two sellers, prices are higher in multilateral negotiations than in first-price auctions. The institutions are equally efficient with two sellers, but multilateral negotiations are slightly more efficient with four sellers.

No. 24: Spaces Of Vulnerability: Migration And Hiv/Aids In South Africa, Brian Williams, Eleanor Gouws, Mark Lurie, Jonathan Crush

Southern African Migration Programme

Seventy per cent of the 36 million people infected worldwide with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa and within this region the countries of Southern Africa are the worst affected. The eight countries with the highest rates of infection are in Southern Africa, followed by six countries in East Africa, and then five other countries, only one outside Africa. The reasons why the highest rates of infection in the world occur in Southern Africa are unclear. Although the countries of the region have much in common, their histories over the last twenty years have been very different.

A number of different …

No. 23: Gender And The Brain Drain From South Africa, Belinda Dodson

Southern African Migration Programme

South Africa is experiencing a substantial “brain drain”, underestimated in official emigration statistics. Yet there is uncertainty over issues such as why some leave and others stay, whether people who leave do so for good, and whether the brain drain will accelerate in the future. The surveys upon which this paper is based aimed to add some substance to the debate on the loss of core skills to the South African economy. They present a profile of the skilled population of South Africa and provide some insight into the factors determining emigration potential. Two distinct surveys were conducted: one of …

No. 25: Zimbabweans Who Move: Perspectives On International Migration In Zimbabwe, Daniel Tevara, Lovemore Zinyama

Southern African Migration Programme

The movement of people across political boundaries has generated considerable debate in Southern Africa. There is a compelling need for Southern African countries to harmonise regional migration policies and to ensure the freer movement of people across the region. However, it must be noted that disparities in levels of development are still evident in the economies of the region. There are fears in countries such as South Africa and Botswana that the freer movement of people will flood them with migrants from the less developed countries. There are also concerns in all the countries of SADC that freer movement will …

No. 09: Transnationalism And African Immigration To South Africa, Jonathan Crush, Vincent Williams

Southern African Migration Programme

The demise of formal apartheid has created new and as yet only partially understood opportunities for migration to South Africa. Legal migration from other Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, for example, has increased almost ten-fold since 1990 to over four million visitors per year. South Africa’s (re)insertion into the global economy has brought new streams of legal and undocumented migrants from outside the SADC region and new ethnic constellations within. The easing of legal and unauthorized entry to South Africa has made the country a new destination for African asylum-seekers, long-distance traders, entrepreneurs, students and professionals (Bouillon 1996; Saasa …

No. 07: Evaluating Refugee Protection In South Africa, Jonathan Crush, Vincent Williams

Southern African Migration Programme

South Africa’s policy on refugees has its origins in the country’s much-criticized Aliens Control Act (96 of 1991) (ACA), which in numerous respects has failed to provide adequate guarantees to applicants (de la Hunt 1998,2002: 123; Human Rights Watch 1998:170; Handmaker 1999a, 1999b). Until the recent implementation of its first ever Refugees Act (Act 130 of 1998) in April 2000, South Africa’s policy on refugees depended on the ACA, with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) responsible for enforcement.

This paper evaluates the process of refugee policy reform that began in 1996. This process led to the Refugees Act in …

No. 08: Thinking About The Brain Drain In Southern Africa, Jonathan Crush, Vincent Williams

Southern African Migration Programme

The movement of skilled people from one country to another is one of the most hotly contested public policy questions today. Debates amongst politicians, academics and bureaucrats about the scale and character of skilled migration, and the policies required to address these movements, are taking place in countries throughout the world (Zweig and Changgui 1995; Odunsi 1996; Phillips 1996; Carrington and Detragiache 1998; Iredale 1998; Iqbal 1999). As the opportunities for skilled personnel to move increases with globalization and the shift to a service economy (Sassen 1988, 1998), as the costs of international travel decrease, and as the ability to …

2002 American Incentive System Almanac, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Monographs

No abstract provided.

Scale And Unit Specification Influences In Harvest Scheduling With Maximum Area Restrictions, Alan T. Murray, Andrés Weintraub

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

This article examines alternative approaches for representing a forest region to be scheduled for harvesting, where the primary concerns are maximizing return and imposing a maximum contiguous area of disturbance restriction. One approach assumes that any two adjacent management units exceed a regulated maximum area of disturbance. An alternative approach recognizes that management units may be substantially smaller than the maximum area restriction, so simultaneously disturbing two neighboring units does not necessarily represent a maximum area violation. The distinguishing feature of these two approaches is the way in which a forest is spatially represented. A single time period, 351 management …