Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Openness and wage inequality in Kenya, 1964–2000
(Elsevier, 2006)This paper analyses the evolution of wage inequality in Kenya between 1964 and 2000. Our measure of wage inequality is the ratio of wages in manufacturing to wages in agriculture, which can be seen as an indicator of ... -
What Have We Learned from a Decade of Manufacturing Enterprise Surveys in Africa?
(Oxford University Press, 2006)In the early 1990s the World Bank launched the Regional Program on Enterprise Development in several African countries, a key component of which was to collect data on manufacturing firms. The data sets built by these and ... -
Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015?
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007)This study uses simulations to explore the possibility of halving the percentage of people living in extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. It is shown that initial levels of inequality and per capita consumption determine the ... -
Hotelling´s T2 Method in Multivariate On-Line Surveillance. On the Delay of an Alarm
(2008-11-28)A system for detecting changes in an on-going process is needed in many situations. On-line monitoring (surveillance) is used in early detection of disease outbreaks, of patients at risk and of financial instability. By ... -
Tradable Permits in Developing Countries: Evidence from air pollution in Santiago, Chile
(2008-11-19)Santiago was one of the first cities outside the OECD to implement a tradable permit program to control air pollution. This paper looks closely at the program’s performance over the past ten years, stressing its similarities ... -
Same Same but Different? A Comparison of Institutional Models
(2008-11-19)In the growing literature on the creation of institutions, the theories emphasizing colonial and legal origin, religious affiliation, Western European influence, and settler mortality, have been especially influential. ... -
Productivity Dynamics and the Role of “Big-Box” Entrants in Retailing
(2008-11-12)Entry of large (“big-box”) stores along with a drastic fall in the total number of stores is a striking trend in retail markets. We use a dynamic structural model to estimate total factor productivity in retail. Then we ... -
Market Structure and the Stability and Volatility of Electricity Prices
(2008-11-06)By using a novel approach in this paper,(λ,σ²)-analysis, we have found that electricity prices most of the time have increased in stability and decreased in volatility when the Nordic power market has expanded and the ... -
Poverty Transition and Persistence in Ethiopia, 1994-2004
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Land Reform, Trust and Natural Resource Management in Africa
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The Wealth Paradox Revisited: Credit Market Imperfections and Child Labor
(2008-10-24)We revisit the model of child labor in a peasant household presented in Bhalotra and Heady (2003), and demonstrate that the effect of credit market imperfections on child labor differs between households that save and ... -
Resource Conflict in Vulnerable Environments: Three Models Applied to Darfur
(2008-10-23)A recurring argument in the global debate is that climate deteriora- tion is likely to make social conflicts over dwindling natural resources more common in the future. In this paper, we present a modelling framework ... -
Child Labor: A Review of Recent Theory and Evidence with Policy Implications
(2008-10-23)In recent years, a growing number of authors have turned their atten- tion to the question of why children work. The purpose of this paper is to review some of the more recent theoretical and empirical research into the ... -
Fast Track Land Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe
(2008-10-21)In the year 2000 the government of Zimbabwe launched the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) as part of its ongoing land reform and resettlement programme, which seeks to address the racially skewed land distribution ... -
Tenure Security and Investments: Micro-evidence from Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme
(2008-10-21)The government of Zimbabwe launched the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in 2000 as part of its ongoing land reform and resettlement programme aimed at addressing a racially skewed land distribution. Its goal has ... -
Part-Time Sick Leave as a Treatment Method?
(2008-10-09)This paper analyzes the effects of being on part-time sick leave compared to full-time sick leave on the probability of recovering (i.e., returning to work with full recovery of lost work capacity). Using a discrete ... -
Evaluation of an In-work Tax Credit Reform in Sweden: Effects on Labor Supply and Welfare Participation of Single Mothers
(2008-09-30)The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a recent Swedish in-work tax credit reform where we pay particular attention to labor market exclusion; i.e. individuals in as well as outside the labor force are included in the ... -
Some statistical aspects of methods for detection of turning points in business cycles
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)Methods for on-line turning point detection in business cycles are discussed. The statistical properties of three likelihood based methods are compared. One is based on a Hidden Markov Model, another includes a non-parametric ... -
Uncovering the Effect of the HIV Epidemic on Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Malawi
(2008-09-16)In many Sub-Saharan countries the HIV epidemic has spread to over 10% of the working-age population, and is likely to affect economically relevant behaviour. We evaluate the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the ... -
The Gender Wage Gap across the Wage Distribution in the Private and Public Sectors
(2008-09-15)This study examines gender wage differentials across the wage distribution in the Swedish private and public sectors using quantile regression. Women have lower wages than men across the entire wage distribution. The gender ...