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Can China’s Growth be Sustained? A Productivity Perspective
(2006)China’s unorthodox approach to economic transition has resulted in sustained high growth. However, in recent years Chinese economists have increasingly referred to the growth pattern as “extensive”, generated mainly through ... -
Trade Union Membership and Earnings in Kenyan Manufacturing Firms
(2001)This paper analyses the effect of trade unions on earnings in Kenyan manufacturing using a switching regression model, which takes into account endogeneity of union status of workers. In contrast to earlier studies of the ... -
Why Does Technology Advance in Cycles?
(2001)Long-run technological progress is cyclical because drastic innovations that introduce new technological opportunity are only profitable at times when repeated incremental innovation has nearly exhausted existing technological ... -
THE EFFECT OF CIGARETTE PRICES AND ANTISMOKING POLICIES ON THE AGE OF SMOKING INITIATION
(2001)This study differs from most previous studies on smoking initiation by studying the age of smoking onset, and not merely smoking initiation. We apply duration analysis to estimate the determinants of the age of smoking ... -
Choosing from Behind a Veil of Ignorance in India
(2002)Social inequality aversion is measured through a veil-of-ignorance experiment with Indian students. The median relative risk aversion is found to be quite high, about 3, and independent caste. -
Should We Use Distributional Weights in CBA When Income Taxes Can Deal with Equity?
(2001)Kaplow (1996) and others argue forcefully in favor of using the standard cost-benefit test alone, without any distributional concern, given "standard simplifying assumptions." This paper, on the contrary, ... -
How Much Do We Care About Absolute Versus Relative Income and Consumption?
(2001)We find, using survey-experimental methods, that most individuals are concerned with both relative income and relative consumption of particular goods. The degree of concern varies in the expected direction depending on ... -
From closed to open door policy: An empirical study of Chinas international capital mobility, 1958-98
(2001)This paper employs the intertemporal consumption smoothing approach to the current account to measure the effective degree of Chinas international capital mobility during the period 1958-98. In contrast to all previous ... -
LONG-TERM ABSENTEEISM DUE TO SICKNESS: THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE, 1986-1991
(2001)Long-term absenteeism due to sickness has been increasing in the past two decades. This has raised many questions about causes, financing, and policy measures to prevent further increases. Answering these questions is ... -
Policy Implications and Analysis of the Determinants of Travel Mode Choice: An Application of Choice Experiments to Metropolitan Costa Rica
(2001)In this paper we study a group of policies aimed at discouraging the use of private transportation during peak hours, both directly and indirectly, by increasing the attractiveness of the only available substitute, the ... -
FIRST EXITS FROM THE SWEDISH LABOR MARKET DUE TO DISABILITY
(2001)The number of disability exits has been increasing in recent years, raising questions both about the well being of affected individuals, and about how to finance the related disability pensions. Using a longitudinal ... -
RESTAURANT OWNERS PERCEPTIONS OF EFFECTS OF A SMOKING BAN
(2001)The aim of this paper is to analyze business owners' expected changes in turnover due to a general smoking ban in restaurants, bars and cafés in Sweden. This is accomplished using a survey mailed out to all 642 restaurants, ... -
Long-run and Short-run Determinants of the Real Exchange Rate in Zambia
(2001)The paper analyses the main determinants of the real exchange rate in Zambia. It first gives a brief review of the Zambian economy and a review on real exchange rate studies. Then an illustrative model is presented. The ... -
SMOKERS DECISIONS TO QUIT SMOKING
(2001)We investigate the effectiveness of different smoking policies on the decision to quit smoking using a choice experiment on a sample of habitual smokers. Our results indicate that restricted availability, increased ... -
Measuring hypotheticalgrandparents preferences for quality and relative standings
(2001)Individuals' aversion to risk and inequality, and their concern for relative standing, are measured through experimental choices between hypothetical societies. It is found that on average individuals are both fairly ... -
Is East Africa an Optimum Currency Area?
(2001)The paper investigates whether the East African Community, comprising of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, constitutes an optimum currency area or not. The East African Community has been revived, and one of the long-term ... -
SHORT-TERM ABSENTEEISM DUE TO SICKNESS:THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE, 1986 - 1991
(2001)The goal of this paper is to analyze short term-absences from work (i.e., periods of seven days or less) in Sweden during a period with two different reforms. As a theoretical model we use a utility-maximization framework ... -
EXITS FROM LONG-TERM SICKNESS IN SWEDEN
(2001)In this paper, we analyze exits from long-term sickness spells in Sweden. Using spell data for more than 2500 people, aged 20-64 years during 1986-1991, and who had at least one sickness spell of at least 60 days during ... -
Economic Freedom and Growth:Decomposing the Effects
(2001)Most studies of the relation between economic freedom and growth of GDP have found a positive relation. One problem in this area is the choice of economic freedom measure. A single measure does notreflect the complex ... -
An Analysis of Subordinated Debt in Banking:The Case of Costly Bankruptcy
(2001)The paper analyzes the mandatory subordinated debt proposals in banking. It theoretically investigates the role of subordinated debt as a buffer against losses for the deposit insurer, and its role in providing direct and ...